Lucky Numbers

John Travolta and Lisa Kudrow are charming in Nora Ephron’s amiable comedy about a lottery scam gone bad. Travolta plays a TV weatherman whose snowmobile business starts to fail, so he and his bumbling girlfriend (Kudrow) try to fix a lottery drawing. Tim Roth, Ed O’Neill, Michael Rapaport., Local celebrity TV weatherman John Travolta is desperate for cash and gets mixed up in a lottery scheme with the ditzy Lisa Kudrow. Soon, everything starts to unravel., While lots of people dream of winning the lottery, one man hatches a more ambitious plan than just buying a ticket and hoping for the best in this satiric comedy. Russ Richards (John Travolta), a weatherman on a local TV station in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, sells snowmobiles on the side, but both careers are in a rut thanks to an unusually warm winter. Russ’s girlfriend Crystal (Lisa Kudrow) appears on the State Lottery’s weekly televised drawing, pulling the numbered balls out of the rotating bin. With the help of a few of his less scrupulous friends – among them sleazy strip joint proprietor Gig (Tim Roth), small time hood Dale The Thug (Michael Rappaport), and Crystal’s sleazy cousin Walter (Michael Moore) – Russ figures out a way to rig the drawing and have Crystal pull numbers that they happen to own. However, Russ discovers that making the scheme work and keeping everyone quiet about it is more trouble than it’s worth. The supporting cast includes Chris Kattan, Ed O’Neill, and Bill Pullman; Nora Ephron, who previously worked with Travolta on the comedy hit Michael, directed., Crime comedy inspired by the 1980 Pennsylvania lottery scandal. A local TV weatherman fallen on hard times gets entangled in a shady plan to rig the state lottery, with the help of the ditzy model who announces the numbers. Before long, the scheme starts to unravel., John Travolta plays Russ Richards, a small-town weatherman who is such a local celebrity that he even has his own table at the local Denny’s. He obviously sees himself as a big deal about town, and he’s got the spending habits to prove it, including payments on a big house and a fancy Jaguar. His unstable life is further complicated by the fling he’s having with the station’s lotto girl, who is also having an affair with the married station manager., John Travolta plays a TV weatherman who participates in a lottery scheme after his snowmobile business starts to fail., John Travolta is a celebrity weatherman who goes into debt and attempts to rig the state lottery to turn things around.