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Lucky Break
Directed by
Peter Cattaneo
PG-13
2002
1h 47m
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6.2
48%
48%
6.1
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Under the leadership of a small-time bank robber, British inmates hatch a plan to escape by staging a musical.
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Cast of Lucky Break
James Nesbitt
James 'Jimmy' Hands
Olivia Williams
Annabel
Timothy Spall
Cliff
Christopher Plummer
Graham Mortimer
Bill Nighy
Roger
Lennie James
Rudy
Ron Cook
Perry
Peter Wight
George Barratt
Celia Imrie
Amy
Raymond Waring
Darren
John Pierce Jones
Mad Lenny
Peter McNamara
Ward
Ram John Holder
Old Billy Morris
Julian Barratt
Paul Dean
Frank Harper
John Toombes
Desmond McNamara
Arthur
Andy Linden
Kenny
Annette Bentley
Julie Gumbell
William Howe
Ritchie Gumbell
Ofo Uhiara
Wayne Wayne
Lucky Break Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Tribune
Loren King
The formulaic script, stocked with not one truly menacing inmate, echoes far too many sentimental post-Full Monty imports.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
A prison comedy that never really busts out of its comfy little cell.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Duane Dudek
If The Full Monty was a freshman fluke, Lucky Break is [Cattaneo] sophomore slump.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
It's what the Brits themselves might call fair to middling.
Nitrate Online
Elias Savada
...an adorably whimsical comedy that deserves more than a passing twinkle.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
A pleasing but routine British comedy set in an English prison.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
No worse a film than Breaking Out, and Breaking Out was utterly charming.
Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Nothing more than a widget cranked out on an assembly line to see if stupid Americans will get a kick out of goofy Brits with cute accents performing ages-old slapstick and unfunny tricks.
E! Online
A bit of jailhouse schlock, sure, but you'll enjoy doing the time.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
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.
SPLICEDWire
Rob Blackwelder
Even if it ultimately disappoints, the picture does have about a matinee admission's worth of funny to keep it afloat.
Village Voice
Ed Park
Mike Leigh mainstay Timothy Spall deftly shades in the designated goner, fellow Still Crazy alum Bill Nighy is sweetly wispy as the capable fop, and anger-management counselor Olivia Williams trembles pleasantly as usual.
Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
Not as good as The Full Monty, but a really strong second effort.
Newsday
John Anderson
There's certainly a reheated quality -- think leftover Spam loaf -- that perfumes Lucky Break.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Lightly reflective and consistently entertaining, Lucky Break is an easy-to-take diversion.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Suffers from over-familiarity since hit-hungry British filmmakers have strip-mined the Monty formula mercilessly since 1997.
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
Lucky Break is perfectly inoffensive and harmless, but it's also drab and inert.
New York Times
Dave Kehr
Forced, familiar and thoroughly condescending.
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
A negligible British comedy.
The Hollywood Reporter
Mark Adams
An enjoyable, funny, well-performed comedy with an appealingly old-fashioned feel.
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