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  • Lucky Break
  • Opened April 5, 2002 | Runtime:1 hr. 47 min.
  • PG-13
    brief strong language and some sexual references
  • From the director of The Full Monty comes a comedy about a prison escape with a musical twist. Smalltime crook Jimmy botches a bank robbery, lands in prison and stages a musical that turns out to be Act One of the perfect escape plan. But it's Act Read More
  • Cast: James Nesbitt, Olivia Williams, Timothy Spall, Bill Nighy, Lennie James
  • Director: Peter Cattaneo
  • Genres: Comedy of Manners, Prison Film, Comedy, Showbiz Comedy

Lucky Break Critic Reviews

So-so Avg. Critic Score out of 100 Metascore ® based on all critic ratings.

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  • 80
    Wall Street Journal | Joe Morgenstern

    A minor comedy, though a major delight.

  • 80
    Washington Post | Michael O'Sullivan

    Apart from the deja vu all over again, Lucky Break is no worse a film than...

  • 75
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    There is not much here that comes as a blinding plot revelation, but the movie...

  • 70
    Washington Post |

    It's what the Brits themselves might call fair to middling.

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