DVD-Review: Lucky You
Film: Lucky You Starring : Drew Barrymore, Eric Bana, Robert Duvall, Robert Downey Jr., Deborah Messing Director: Curtis Hanson Screenwriter : Eric Roth and Curtis Hanson Why? What prompted Drew Barrymore to play yet another naive innocent in some vacuous film? I ask this question of Robert Duvall and Robert Downey Jr. although neither of these two were naive innocents, and the latter Robert's role was only about 5 minutes long. The premise of the film is the analysis of the life of Huck (yes, as in Huckleberry) Cheever (Eric Bana), a full-time gambler who can win successfully, but doesn't know when to stop. Compulsive is the word. He falls for Billie (Drew), who is in town visiting her sister (Deborah Messing), who warns Billie against Huck. She falls for him anyway, thinking him a lost soul who can be changed. It doesn't matter that when she tells him that she got a job and he offers to celebrate, he takes her $1,000 in traveler...