Lucky Numbers
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.
- Director
- Nora Ephron
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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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Box Office & Release
- Budget
- $65M
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- Domestic gross
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- Release date
- Oct 27, 2000
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- MPAA rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- France, United States of America
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