Hanson and Roth shuffle the two sides of the movie, the poker tournament and the love affair, with a Howard Hawksian feel for casual professionalism.
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Lucky You (2007)
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Reviews Counted:33
Fresh:8
Rotten:25
Average Rating:4.9/10
Consensus: Lucky You tries to combine a romantic story with the high-stakes world of poker, but comes up with an empty hand.
Theatrical Release:May 4, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $5,727,530
Synopsis: Director Curtis Hanson (L.A. CONFIDENTIAL, WONDER BOYS) raises the stakes and takes on Las Vegas in LUCKY YOU. Huck Cheever (Eric Bana) plays poker for a living, using every opportunity that arises... [More]
Starring: Eric Bana, Drew Barrymore, Robert Duvall, Debra Messing
Director: Curtis Hanson
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Reviews for Lucky You
Top CriticLucky You is hardly Mr. Hanson’s strongest effort, but it does contain many of his saving graces: a warm regard for his characters, an unhurried pace for his narrative and a grown-up sense of morality.
05/16/07
Top CriticIt’s a ponderous, anemic bore about how to play poker that exploits the trendy gambling fever that is all the rage on the Internet and cable TV, but doesn’t have enough energy to keep the most catatonic tournament-poker addict awake.
05/09/07
Top CriticMost of Lucky You, starting with the title, is ordinary or outright awful. Moviemakers, it seems, cannot bluff their way to success.
05/07/07
Top CriticEven if you think you know where Lucky You is headed, there's something pleasurable about watching it unfold.
05/04/07
Top CriticDispassionate and dull despite some strong performances, Lucky You just feels played out.
05/04/07
Top CriticMade a couple of years ago, Curtis Hanson's Oedipally fraught Vegas dud is only now being unceremoniously dumped for what will certainly be a heartbeat of theatrical life.
05/04/07
Top CriticA solid, well-made, generally gripping and intelligent movie.
05/04/07
Top CriticAt 2 hours and 15 minutes, Lucky You does play a bit long. It's probably about two hours longer than it needs to be.
05/04/07
Top CriticUnfortunately, somebody seems to have had the idea that Lucky You should be a long movie -- that way, we might take it more seriously, perhaps.
05/04/07
Top CriticBest known for L.A. Confidential and 8 Mile, Hanson is an accomplished filmmaker. But you wouldn't know it from this unfocused movie that shows us cardsharps of an unusually dull variety.
05/04/07
Top CriticIt's a weak hand from the filmmaker; not a colossal failure, just a dreary mediocrity.
05/04/07
Top CriticEven though Lucky You is sometimes dull and generally thin, there is something winning about the movie's genial lack of ambition.
05/04/07
Top CriticStaying home and playing solitaire would be two levels more interesting than watching this movie, which is directed, or rather embalmed, by L.A. Confidential man Curtis Hanson.
05/04/07
Top CriticLucky You is in the mold of The Hustler and The Cincinnati Kid. But while there is conflict, there is no tension, and while there is plenty of gamesmanship, there is no suspense.
05/04/07
Top CriticLucky You is a penny-ante movie about high-stakes Las Vegas poker. It's a tepid and flavorless effort despite a notable cast and a generally strong director.
05/04/07
Top CriticIn the end, Lucky You lays out poker as a sterile corporate undertaking. For lovers of the game and lovers of the cinema, it's far from a safe bet.
05/04/07
Top CriticFrom the opening scene, the movie is flatter than week-old beer.
05/04/07
Top CriticThe deal was wrong right from the beginning on Lucky You.
05/04/07
Top CriticWhile Lucky You may not stand in the august company of Hanson movies like L.A. Confidential, 8 Mile and the unfairly overlooked In Her Shoes, it is a lot more entertaining than its well-played premise might initially seem.
05/04/07
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