Fresh
Bergman...really brings home the homage to Capra with the pic's warm, bordering-on-irresistible finale.
Brian Lowry, Variety
It Could Happen to You
A cop. A waitress. A lottery ticket.
1994 · 1h 41m · PG
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Directed by
Andrew Bergman
Overview
Charlie Lang is a simple, kindhearted New York City cop. When he realizes he has no money to tip waitress Yvonne Biasi, Lang offers her half the winnings of his lottery ticket. Amazingly, the ticket happens to be a winner, in the sum of $4 million. True to his word, Lang proceeds to share the prize money with Biasi, which infuriates his greedy wife, Muriel. Not content with the arrangement, Muriel begins scheming to take all the money.
Director and cast
- Andrew Bergman Director
- Nicolas Cage as Charlie Lang
- Bridget Fonda as Yvonne Biasi
- Rosie Perez as Muriel Lang
- Wendell Pierce as Bo Williams
- Isaac Hayes as Angel Dupree
- Seymour Cassel as Jack Gross
- Víctor Rojas as Jesu
- Stanley Tucci as Eddie Biasi
- Richard Jenkins as C. Vernon Hale
- J.E. Freeman as Sal Bontempo
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
71%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Perez has a field day as Muriel, injecting a welcome note of good old-fashioned greed into what is otherwise a relentlessly edifying story.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Rotten
Sweetness is fine as far as it goes, but this oddball romance could have used a twist of lemon.
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Fresh
Simply and without pandering or insults to your intelligence, the movie delivers more of the old-style pleasures of moviegoing than any other picture in a long while.
Hal Hinson, Washington Post
Fresh
Bergman never goes for heavy-handed schmaltz, and the whole movie has the same lighthearted big city spirit as the New York Post headlines that follow the story.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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