Lucky Numbers

Lucky Numbers

5.1IMDb Score
Released:2000-10-27
Duration:105 min
Director:Nora Ephron
Actors:John Travolta, Lisa Kudrow, Tim Roth, Ed O'Neill, Michael Rapaport
Production:Paramount Pictures, StudioCanal, Jonathan D. Krane Productions, Mad Chance, Alphaville Films

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.

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