Lucky Numbers Page #11

Synopsis: Winter, 1988: Harrisburg PA's celebrity weatherman, Russ Richards, is broke: he's borrowed heavily to open a snowmobile dealership, and it's still unseasonably warm. Gig, his seedy pal, advises him to run an insurance scam; when it goes awry, Russ is out another $10,000 and in trouble with Dale, a bat-wielding thug. Gig convinces Russ to rig the state lottery with the help of Crystal, a gold-digging ditz with a heart of tin. They have to find a beard to buy the ticket, and then they have to cash it. Soon, murder and various double-crosses add to Russ's nightmare. A lazy cop zeroes in. Jail is closer than riches. Will Russ have to choose between his money and his life?
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Director(s): Nora Ephron
Production: Paramount Pictures
  2 wins & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
5.0
Metacritic:
31
Rotten Tomatoes:
22%
R
Year:
2000
105 min
$9,534,013
Website
343 Views


At times like that,

i say to myself, "Why me?"

I mean, "Why me?"

If i had to answe rthe question,

i'd have to say, "Just Iucky."

You're making my dreams come true

Doo-ooh, doo-doo, doo-doo

Nights were warm

Dreams were easy

No one standing

Overhead

Conversation

Didn't mean much

We were hungry

but we could not be fed

Radio blasting

Silly little Iove songs

We only listened for the beat

Taking our chances

Out there on the mean streets

Hiding in the shadows

from the heat

From the heat

We weren't lovers

Just brave strangers

As we fought and we tumbled

through the night

We were players

Not arrangers

And we jammed

till the dawn's early light

Swimming in the big lake

Taking it easy

Taking any comfort we could find

Didn't need the real truth

Didn't need the meaning

Straight ahead

ignoring every sign

Every sign

And, oh, i remember

I know you do too

Oh, that one evening

I know you do too

The moon flying high

[Chorus]

The moon flying high

- And you took my hand

- Ooh

Ooh-ooh

You took my hand

Ooh-ooh

And it went allright

It went allright

It went allright

It went allright

Oh

So we walked out

Hardly speaking

Disappearing

In the night

Saw each other

A few time safter

But we never really got it right

We weren't lovers

Just brave strangers

As we rolled and we tumbled

through the night

We were players

Not arrangers

And we jammed

till the dawn's early light

- Just brave strangers

- Early light

- Just brave strangers

- Whoa-oh

Whoa-oh

Whoa-oh

Whoa-oh-oh

Whoa-oh

Yeah

[Woman]

I can't wait to go to heaven

Before i get my big reward

If i'm good i could

That's what they tell me

i've been working for

When i prove that i can do it

That's when

i'll get my big reward

Keep that big wheel turning

And my number

will come up for sure

I'm gonna get my big reward

Wanna get my big reward

Wanna have it all sewn up

Before I'm all grown up

Gonna get my big reward

Gonna get my big reward

Gonna get my big reward

Right now

Nevermind the odds against us

I won't give up mybig reward

We have to take our chances

We got a plan

and we can make a score

I'm gonna get my big reward

Wanna get my big reward

Wanna have it all sewn up

Before i'm all grown up

Gonna get my big reward

Gonna get my big reward

Right now

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Adam Resnick

Adam Resnick is an American comedy writer from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He is best known for his work writing for Late Night with David Letterman. Additionally, Resnick co-created and wrote for Get A Life with Chris Elliott. more…

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