SYNOPSICS
Lucky Break (2001) is a English movie. Peter Cattaneo has directed this movie. Ron Cook,Frank Harper,James Nesbitt,Olivia Williams are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2001. Lucky Break (2001) is considered one of the best Comedy,Crime,Romance movie in India and around the world.
Half-way through his 12-year prison sentence for an incompetent armed robbery, Jimmy Hands gets a lucky break: he's transferred to a prison from which he can probably escape. He convinces the governor to stage a musical in an old chapel next to the prison's outer wall. He rounds up volunteer actors and puts his escape plan into production. Two other barriers, besides the wall, confront him: the arrival of a nasty inmate, John Toombes, who insists on joining the escape, and Jimmy's feelings of attraction for Anabel, a social worker who agrees to appear in the play. Opening night approaches: is this Jimmy's breakout performance?
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Great improbable fun
My husband and I thoroughly enjoyed this romp of nonsense. In fact, we're still singing that crazy "Four Months at Sea" song and laughing about it. Sure, it is improbable, but the actors are obviously having fun, making it such a pleasure to watch. Imagine a bunch of no-talent prisoners attempting a musical to "please" their warden (and escape)? Can they pull it off without killing themselves laughing at their ridiculousness? That's entirely debatable. The songs are catchy, the casting of the musical characters (think con-jobs) hilarious, the costumes.... well, see for yourself. This is one film we are planning to buy and keep. Just what is needed when stuck in lousy winter weather.
stupid but fun
Lucky break is stupid. In fact, so stupid it's reasonably laughable. But it's also entertaining. Very entertaining. Filled with great comic sketches, as well as heart-touching moments, this film is definitely worth £3.50 and a bag of extra-large popcorn. Starting off, two men are arrested, and put into jail, which they find very uncomfortable. They want out. So they hatch a ludicrous scheme that just couldn't work...or could it? Some good acting (espcially by Timothy Spall) leads this film well on it's way to the thumbs up. Funny, touching and hugely, hugely enjoyable, Lucky break should be just the antidote to a long, stressful day. Overall: **** out of ***** (4 out of 5)
nice
....and for one reason only, it didn't do what every single brit com, has done this year, in fact every one since i can remember has done. Whats that you ask? SHOWN EVERY SINGLE FUNNY BIT IN THE TRAILER. ok so the yanks do it a hell of a lot too but we British seem very guilty of it. anyway i've got that off my chest now so i'll continue. I went into this film with fairly low expectations, coz there were few funny bits in the trailer so i figured thats all it has to offer, and i came out with that warmish glow inside, you know that one you get when you've seen a really 'nice' film.Yes this film is nice, its one of those that makes you go awwwww, especially if you stay right to the very end of the credits, and once you have finished laughing James Nesbit's wig you'll realize this. Cattaneo has but together a superb supporting cast especially in Tim Spall and Christopher Plummer who both do superb turns. Go and see this film if you just want to see something you'll come out feeling nice after
That Lord Nelson.
It was probably made to capitalize on the well-deserved success of the "Full Monty" :both films have a lot in common ;proles / prisoners setting a show up. The major drawback is Christopher Plummer's part :it's really underwritten and the scenarists obviously favored James Nesbitt's role.Too bad for the "show " sequences are the best in the whole film but we do not laugh enough.Lord Nelson's and "that" Lady Hamilton's song is deliciously stupid and provides a great moment of fun.The inmates ironically singing "we're going home" is a hilarious scene too. But it seems that the director could not make up his mind :he hesitates between comedy and drama:the sadistic warden is a cliché ,as old as the hills in what is finally a prison movie. Watchable but the screenplay was not fully exploited.
What if "The Great Escape" had been a British comedy?
I've not had the opportunity to spend any time in a British prison, but I doubt that the prison life is as nice in reality as it is portrayed here. But I think that's part of the comedy, part of the suspension of disbelief, for a bunch of happy-go-lucky prisoners who encourage the prison warden (called 'governor') to perform the stage musical "Nelson" that he has written, while at the same time plotting an escape. It stars James Nesbitt, an Irishman who is remarkably similar to George Clooney with a thick accent, as Jimmy Hands, inept bank robber. A very entertaining 103 minutes, I enjoyed this movie more than such British comedies as 'The Full Monty' and 'Brassed Off.' some SPOILERS follow, please read no further. Jimmy and his partner, playing cops and robbers since kids, attempt a bank heist that will set them up for life, bungle it badly, and are sent to prison. Jimmy is nice but headstrong, spends most of his time in 14-day solitary stints, but finds (1) that the old chapel happens to be the ideal place to stage a break and (2) the warden would like to perform his musical in the old chapel because acoustics are ideal. So Jimmy encourages the warden, feeds his ego, while they devise a plan to use a rope ladder prop to go over the wall during the play. When a new prisoner, a violent man, shows up, and tells Jimmy he will be included, smart Jimmy devises a misdirection which ends up with the violent criminal being caught, while his three friends escape, with the help of the pilot wife of one of them. They simply dressed as theater-goers and walked out in the dark with the rest of the audience. At the last minute Jimmy stayed behind, to serve out his two years, and be with the pretty prison anger-management psychologist who was his leading lady in the musical. He eventually got out, she was there for him. As credits roll we see the former chief prison guard patrolling a parking garage for a living, two of the escapees and the pilot wife partying in Rio, and the final escapee selling "maps to the stars" in Hollywood. This film is primarily a comedy, but there are commentaries on love and devotion, plus a tragic suicide after the gentle inmate finds out his wife may be running out on him. A decent DVD with a good soundtrack, no extras worth mentioning.