Lucky Numbers (2000)
When they put their heads together... it's a no brainer.
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.
- Date of release
- 2000-10-27
- TMDB
- 5.2 / 10 (201)
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- Genres
- Comedy, Crime
- Director
- Nora Ephron
Casting
- John Travolta — Russ Richards
- Lisa Kudrow — Crystal
- Tim Roth — Gig
- Ed O'Neill — Dick Simmons
- Michael Rapaport — Dale
- Daryl Mitchell — Detective Chambers
- Bill Pullman — Detective Pat Lakewood
- Richard Schiff — Jerry Green
- Michael Moore — Walter
- Sam McMurray — Chief Troutman
- Michael Weston — Larry
- Maria Bamford — Wendy
Interesting facts
- Filmed in: Florida
Lucky Numbers is a 2000 black comedy film directed by Nora Ephron and starring John Travolta, Lisa Kudrow, Tim Roth, Ed O'Neill, Michael Rapaport, Richard Schiff, Daryl Mitchell, Bill Pullman, and Michael Moore. The screenplay by Adam Resnick was inspired by the 1980 Pennsylvania Lottery scandal. It is the only film Ephron directed without also writing the screenplay.
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