Lucky Numbers Page #9

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
321 Views


- [ Gasps ] Mold spores.

- What?

This room has a high content

of mold spores.

- My throat's closing up.

- Oh, jeez.

- [ Gasping, Wheezing ]

- Oh.

[ Wheezing Continues ]

- Are you all right, Walter?

- [ Wheezing ]

Mm. Tsk.

[ Exhaling, Gurgling ]

[ Wheezing ]

Oh, jeez.

- All clear.

- Thank God for modern medicine.

- Yeah.

- Hey, Walter, test the bed.

It's a combination of the heat

and moisture. That's what does it.

Yeah. Is it always this sticky

in Harrisburg in the winter?

Well, you know, it's...

it's a fluke, of course,

but it's not entirely uncommon, no.

- Uh-uh.

- W-Why's that?

Well, okay, well, historically,

weather has been unpredictable.

- Yeah, well, w-why's that?

- Why?

- [ Sniffling ]

- Well... Well, okay, you got...

Your, uh... you got your cold fronts

and you got...

your warm fronts, and then

you're talking barometric pressure.

- Well, without my gauges, i.. i..

- I love hotels.

Walter? Walter? Hey! Walter.

- Yeah?

- Are you clear on what we're doing?

How long will it be

be-before i get my money?

- Oh, well...

- Oh. Yeah, no.

Um, it's real simple, honey.

When we get our first payment,

you take your 20,000 right away.

- That's yours.

- Right. Tax-free.

- We want you to be happy.

- Oh.

Well, I could...

l could really use the money,

'cause m-m-my church

needs a new furnace.

- Oh, well, that is so refreshing.

- Yeah.

And I'm gonna use the rest

to open an adult bookstore.

Ah. Okay. Well, that's good.

That's good too. Yeah.

Do you masturbate, Russ?

Jeez. I've been so busy lately,

I barely polish my shoes.

- 'Cause i masturbate all the time.

- Oh, yeah?

Yeah. Some people think it's a sin,

but God gave us the ability to

masturbate to protect us from sin.

Oh. Oh, okay.

Yeah. I could... I could see that.

- Sure. Why not?

- I like sex.

- There's a lot of sex in the Bible.

- Mm-hmm.

- I'm sure there's a Bible here.

- Yeah.

- Yeah, sure.

- S-So, we...

- We're a team, right?

- Yeah, yeah, a team!

- Yeah?

- Team. [ Chuckling ]

- [ Chuckling ]

- Ooh.

Yeah? Yeah?

- Oh, I've got one. Let me pick.

- No, no, no, no, no!

- Please, let me finish. Okay, 16.

- I wanna pick one.

Sixteen, okay? That's how old i was

when I first got laid.

- Really?

- Yeah. Okay.

Twenty-five. Okay, twenty-five.

My mother's birthday.

-January 25, 1912. All right.

- No, no. This...

No, the 25th

was my anniversary,

and I got divorced,

and I got screwed in that.

I didn't get a good settlement.

Seventy.

I had a '70 Camaro and got in that

accident and got a huge settlement.

- Oh, yeah. Famous whiplash. Okay.

- Remember? That's right.

Um, I got some randomly

selected numbers, okay?

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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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