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Lucky

Jeffrey Blitz 2009

Categories: U.S. Documentary Competition, Features, International Perspectives, Programmers Picks, World Premiere

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Run time: 87 min. | U.S.A.

Dreaming of winning the lottery is as American as apple pie. Millions of Americans spend billions of dollars each year hoping to come up a winner. But what happens to the lucky few who actually pull a winning ticket?

Lucky crisscrosses the country, examining a handful of past lottery winners as they navigate their newly found riches and a couple of extremely determined hopefuls. The winners’ lives are undoubtedly changed forever but not necessarily in the ways we may expect. Life becomes complicated as attorneys, hired security guards, jealous friends, scheming family members, and desperate pleas for help from strangers pepper their new existence.

Veteran director Jeffrey Blitz (Spellbound, Rocket Science—2007 Sundance Film Festival Directing Award winner) has skillfully crafted a revealing look at the way one’s identity is undoubtedly turned upside down after the big payout. Thoroughly involving, Lucky cleverly strips off the veneer and shatters our perceptions about the ultimate American dream.

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time	event code	venue	calendar
9:00 PM Sun, Jan 24	LUCKY24TN screens with... Mr. Okra \| T.G. Herrington 2009	Temple Theatre	+ add to cal
11:59 PM Mon, Jan 25	LUCKY254L screens with... Mr. Okra \| T.G. Herrington 2009	Holiday Village Cinema IV	+ add to cal
9:00 PM Tue, Jan 26	LUCKY26BN screens with... Mr. Okra \| T.G. Herrington 2009	Broadway Centre Cinemas VI	+ add to cal
8:30 AM Wed, Jan 27	LUCKY27LM screens with... Mr. Okra \| T.G. Herrington 2009	Library Center Theatre	+ add to cal
9:30 PM Fri, Jan 29	LUCKY29TN screens with... Mr. Okra \| T.G. Herrington 2009	Temple Theatre	+ add to cal

About the film

Cast & Crew

director	Jeffrey Blitz
writer	Avie Luthra

Cast	Brenda Ngxoli James Ngcobo Jayashree Basavra Mary Twala Mduduzi Mabaso Sihle Dlamini Vusi Kunene
executive producer	Christopher Wilmot Rebecca Morton, Liz Manne, Catherine Tait
producer	Christopher Wilmot Lance Samuels Sean Welch, Marc Turtletaub, Peter Saraf, Jeb Brody
co-producer	Avie Luthra Steve Brown
composer	Eef Barzelay
cinematographer	Willie Nel
editor	Yana Gorskaya
animator	Walter Robot

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Rated 2.0/5 Stars my rating click to rate 1 2 3 4 5 SLSteve 12:51 AM		Found it to be interesting, but it turned into a drag... though I found the people in focus to be interesting, the film spends too much time on each character (at least, what was an appropriate amt of time to spend on a subject at the start of the film was too much time as we approached the conclusion of the film)... I was glad that the film didn't focus solely on one type of lottery story - this wasn't just about lottery winners who ended up losers, but showed us both the successful and unsuccessful lottery winners. Not among my favorites this year - not terrible, but nothing about this film stands out.