2007 · drama · romance · music
Lucky You
Directed by Curtis Hanson2h 4m2007
A professional poker player whose astounding luck at the table fails to translate into his lonesome love life attempts to win the World Series of Poker while simultaneously earning the affections of a beautiful Las Vegas singer.
Our read: Lucky You (2007) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded drama · romance · music entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, gentle drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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