Lucky You (2007)

Regisseur:

Curtis Hanson

Drehbuchautoren (WGA):

Eric Roth (screenplay) &
Curtis Hanson (screenplay) ...

Premierendatum:

4. Mai 2007 (USA)

Genre:

Komödie | Drama | Romanze | Sportfilm

Werbezeile:

Change your game. Change your life.

Plot:

A hotshot poker player tries to win a tournament in Vegas, but is fighting a losing battle with his personal problems.

Plot Keywords:

Surprise After End Credits | Poker | Las Vegas Nevada | Gambler | Father Son Relationship

Filmpreise:

1 nomination

Nutzerkommentare:

Entertaining, And Poker Fans Will Really Love It

US TV Schedule:

Sat. July 26

8:30 AM

MAX

Besetzung

Eric Bana	...	Huck Cheever
Drew Barrymore	...	Billie Offer
Robert Duvall	...	L. C. Cheever
Debra Messing	...	Suzanne Offer
Horatio Sanz	...	Ready Eddie
Charles Martin Smith	...	Roy Durucher
Danny Hoch	...	Bobby Basketball
Saverio Guerra	...	Lester
Phyllis Somerville	...	Pawnbroker
Joey Kern	...	Billie’s Admirer
Delaine Yates	...	Ginger
Mykel Shannon Jenkins	...	Gary
Robert Downey Jr.	...	Telephone Jack
Kenny Cau	...	Chinese Restaurant Waiter
Kelvin Han Yee	...	Chico Banh

Alternativ:

Glück im Spiel (Deutschland) [de]

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for some language and sexual humor.

Länge:

124 Min

Produktionsland:

USA | Australia

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Farbe

Seitenverhältnis:

2.35 : 1

Tonverfahren:

Dolby Digital

Altersfreigabe:

Netherlands:6 | Germany:6 | USA:PG-13 | Ireland:12A | Argentina:13 | Australia:PG | Singapore:PG | UK:PG

Drehorte:

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Firma:

Lucky You Pictures Inc.

Dies und das:

The portrait (actually an enlarged photograph) hung on the wall during the final WSOP match is that of Benny Binion, the original owner of the Horseshoe, taken at his ranch in Montana.

Pannen:

Abfolgefehler: At the beginning of the final scene in Dino's parking lot, the wide shot shows a car backing onto the street. In the next frame (narrow shot), the car has disappeared.

Dialogzitate:

Huck Cheever: I got a seat in the World Series.
Billie Offer: You came all the way here to tell me that?
Huck Cheever: You're the only person I wanted to tell.

Bezüge zu anderen Titeln:

Verweis/Anspielung/Erwähnung in I Am Legend (2007)

Soundtrack:

They Ain't Got 'Em All

Entertaining, And Poker Fans Will Really Love It

As far as playing or watching poker on television, I can take it or leave it, and I enjoyed this movie.... so I can imagine poker fans will really LOVE this film. It gives justice to their "sport" with realistic hands, playing, situations and attitudes.

Often, I thought something hokey was going to happen, something predictable but rarely did that occur in this film. You really never knew what was going to happen and suspense builds for a number of gambling scenes. I hesitate to say more for fear of spoiling anything. Suffice to say, the gambling scenes in here were very realistic. I know what from the behind-the- scenes bonus features in which a number of real-life professional players commented on that fact.

The film follows a father-and-son team (Eric Bana and Robert Duvall playing "Huck" and "L.C. Cheever") with a small romance sub-plot involving Drew Barrymore. It isn't just all about poker, although that's most of it - culminating in the World Series of Poker - but about the mentality of people who make gambling their life.

This film was far better than I figured it would be, and was rewarding in the end without being predictable. It was fairly low-key, too, in the profanity and sex department, but kids would be bored with this film, anyway.

This movie will mainly attract card players, I'm afraid, and that's too bad because it offers a lot more than that. The movie got better as it went along and wound up a good two hours of entertainment.