
In Las Vegas, Huck Cheever is a poker player, brilliant but also prone to let emotion take over. It's the week of the poker world series, and Huck must come up with the $10,000 entry fee, which he wins, loses, borrows, and loses - and even steals part of from Billie Offer, an earnest young woman who's new in town and who catches Huck's eye. By the time the tournament starts, Huck owes everyone. Complicating things is the arrival of Huck's father, whom Huck detests for having ... (Full plot summary below)
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In Las Vegas, Huck Cheever is a poker player, brilliant but also prone to let emotion take over. It's the week of the poker world series, and Huck must come up with the $10,000 entry fee, which he wins, loses, borrows, and loses - and even steals part of from Billie Offer, an earnest young woman who's new in town and who catches Huck's eye. By the time the tournament starts, Huck owes everyone. Complicating things is the arrival of Huck's father, whom Huck detests for having left his mother, a champion player in town to win. Can Huck learn to play poker the way he lives and to live the way he plays poker? Or is his only flush the sound of his life going down the toilet?
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| The Film YapNick RogersCurtis Hanson's film concerns itself with wage-makers' addictive pathological itch, desperate hustles and poker's cult of very strange personalities. Its most striking "Tin Cup" kinship: Vindication and victory don't always arrive together. |
| tonymedley.comTony MedleyThis is a thoroughly enjoyable film that I hated to see end. |
| Bangor Daily News (Maine)Christopher SmithIn spite of being pitted against Spider-Man--and after sitting for the past two years on Warner Brothers' shelf (never a good sign--the film isn't the disaster some might expect it to be. |
| Palo Alto WeeklyTyler HanleyWhen a deck of cards trumps plot and character development, the film is bound to fold. |
| Detroit NewsTom LongThe deal was wrong right from the beginning on Lucky You. |
| ReelViewsJames BerardinelliThe compelling and interesting aspect of Lucky You is not so much the compulsion that drives the main character but the way in which he interacts with those around him. The movie isn't a downer, but neither does it end with all loose ends nicely tied off. In this case, redemption does not equate with salvation. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonA relaxed-looking expert piece that immerses us in another world. At the end, Hanson has a bonus. He and his producers hired Bob Dylan for the Oscar-winning "Things Have Changed" in "Wonder Boys," and Hanson brings Dylan back here, for a folky, bluesy number called "Huck's Tune." |
| Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerAt its best it's refreshingly offhanded. It's a hit-and-miss movie that's worth seeing for the hits. |
| Aisle SeatMike McGranaghanPersonally, I think this is one of those misunderstood films that never got a fair shake. DVD often corrects such oversights, and my hope is that Lucky You will finally find the appreciative audience it deserves. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyNeither exciting as a poker-game film nor compelling as a Vegas romantic melodrama, Hanson's latest effort is a major disappointment, a dull psychologistic saga that even its charming ensemble (Bana, Barrymore, Duvall) can't breathe life into it. |