![]() ![]() The rules are explained early on when Billie sits down with Huck to watch him play in one scene, and then the movie takes off with one game sequence after another. That's because the film's narrative is hardly there at all, and a vast majority of the film is devoted to the game itself. ![]() Most of the time while I was watching Lucky You, I felt like I was watching an advertisement for the Las Vegas tourism board, or perhaps one of those professional Poker games you sometimes see on TV. This begins a rocky on-again off-again relationship between the two where Huck will have to determine what is truly important in his life. Billie's a singer at a local bar and knows nothing about gambling, but when she starts to get attached to Huck, she can see the compulsiveness that he cannot. While trying to gather the money needed to participate in the World Series Poker Championship, he happens to meet a sweet young newcomer to Vegas named Billie Offer (Drew Barrymore). (Robert Duvall) is also a professional player on the circuit, and it doesn't make things any easier for Huck. We follow a man named Huck Cheever (Eric Bana), who could be one of the best players in the game, but he is compulsive and often loses as much as he wins. ![]() The film is set in the high stakes world of professional gambling in Las Vegas. Now that I've seen the film, I can say that the film is certainly not all bad, but is nowhere near what it should be given the talent both on and behind the camera. These signs should have filled me with confidence, but there was also the knowledge nagging at me that the film had been sitting on the studio's shelf for almost two years, and had been shuffled through numerous release dates. And it features three very likable actors in lead roles, specifically Eric Bana, Drew Barrymore, and Robert Duvall. The screenplay was also co-written by Eric Roth, the screenwriter of The Insider and Munich. The film is directed and co-written by Curtis Hanson, who has made many films I've admired in the past including 8 Mile and L.A. No movie in recent memory has sent me more mixed pre-release signals than Lucky You. ![]()
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