Rotten
The characters are generally too repulsive even for our toleration, much less our affection, and the comedy is too mild to transcend that lack of involvement.
Cody Clark, Mr. Showbiz
Lucky Numbers
When they put their heads together... it's a no brainer.
2000 · 1h 45m · R
Comedy, Crime
Directed by
Nora Ephron
Overview
Russ Richards is a TV weatherman and local celebrity on the verge of losing his shirt. Desperate to escape financial ruin, he schemes with Crystal the TV station's lotto ball girl to rig the state lottery drawing. The numbers come up right, but everything else goes wrong as the plan starts to unravel and the game turns rough.
Director and cast
- Nora Ephron Director
- John Travolta as Russ Richards
- Lisa Kudrow as Crystal
- Tim Roth as Gig
- Ed O'Neill as Dick Simmons
- Michael Rapaport as Dale
- Daryl Mitchell as Detective Chambers
- Bill Pullman as Detective Pat Lakewood
- Richard Schiff as Jerry Green
- Michael Moore as Walter
- Sam McMurray as Chief Troutman
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
22%
Tomatometer
Rotten
The movie is as lifeless and unfunny as a corpse on a slab.
Jonathan Foreman, New York Post
Rotten
Instead of becoming involved in the convoluted plot, we stand on the outside looking in, not laughing enough to make it all worthwhile.
James Berardinelli, ReelViews
Rotten
It's the easiest kind of comedy, comedy of derision. No joke about the rubes is left alone. And no obvious plot twist is, either.
John Anderson, Newsday
Fresh
All of the main characters in this movie are despicable. This is why they are fun.
Robert Horton, Film.com
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