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Lucky Break (2002)

Lucky Break
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Bill Nighy, Celia Imrie, Christopher Plummer, Frank Harper, James Nesbitt ... (see more)

After a bungled robbery, small-time criminals Jimmy (James Nesbitt) and Rudy (Lennie James) are reunited in prison. Freedom beckons when the governor (Christopher Plummer) mounts an amateur staging of his self-penned musical and gets the inmates involved, providing the perfect cover for a daring esc... (read more)

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PG-13, 108 min.
Directed by: Peter Cattaneo
Release Date: Apr 05, 2002
DVD Release Date: Oct 22, 2002

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210 days ago
Sweet film. Not a movie that will be with me for all time but I was fairly entertained for its duration. Bill Nighy and Timothy Spall alone are worth the admission ticket. Do not expect another Full Monty and if you can do that you will be entertaine... (read more)
350 days ago
Good cast who perform well, but are limited by an average script. It's a good way to pass the time, but I'm unlikely to seek this movie out again to watch it... Even though the Nelson musical was written by Stephen Fry!
727 days ago
Funny, sad, slightly predictable, but with a great cast and just enough skew to set it apart. Stephen Fry did the bits of the musical... need I say more? I watch it just to hear James sing!
731 days ago
Before Prison Break was a Fox TV Series, Film Four made a slightly camp low budget musical rom com version.
803 days ago
Its not hilarious funny, but it has a brilliant plot. A nice mix of romance, comedy and even pathos. Eventhough its kind of short, everything unfolds and ties up nicely in the end. A must watch and don't miss out on the last song 'Sunny' at the end!

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2812 days ago
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
A pleasing but routine British comedy set in an English prison.
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2817 days ago
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
The movie has a raffish charm and good-hearted characters, and like The Full Monty it makes good use of the desperation beneath the comedy.
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2831 days ago
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com
Lucky Break is perfectly inoffensive and harmless, but it's also drab and inert.
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