2006 · comedy · drama · family
Just My Luck
Directed by Donald Petrie1h 43m2006
Manhattanite Ashley is known to many as the luckiest woman around. After a chance encounter with a down-and-out young man, however, she realizes that she's swapped her fortune for his.
Our read: Just My Luck (2006) reads as a cosy, steady, inventive comedy · drama · family entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, steady, gentle comedy / drama, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- cosy
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
- funny
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