Your Lucky Day Review – Hard-hitting, Uncompromising, A Must-See Sleeper Hit
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- Category: Indies, Docs, Foreign Film
- Published on Thursday, 02 November 2023 18:32
- Written by Janet Walker
Your Lucky Day, from Well Go USA Entertainment, presents a story inspired by the American Dream, as six strangers through fate just happened to be in a convenience store, at Christmas, when the Powerball numbers are announced.
As the film begins, we meet Sterling, played by the late Angus Cloud, dealing oxy on the street when the college boy he is selling to comes up short and his buddy comes up behind him, knocks him down, steals his money and supply.
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In the industrial zone in Miami, he walks into a out of the way bodega just as an older white guy, played by Spencer Garrett, is also trying to walk through the door and the two bump into each other. Sterling heads to the girly magazine counter and the man buys a couple of drinks and asks the owner, Amir, played by Mousa Hussein Kraish, if he has a lottery ticket scanner.
Suddenly the machine is blinking "you're a winner!" And he is shouting "I won!" In seconds Sterling has gift wrapped his face with a page from the girly magazine and with his gun in the man's face is demanding the ticket. The man refuses and the shouting escalates.
Unbeknownst to everyone, a rookie cop, Cody, played by Sterling Beaumon, is in the men's room and hears the noise and with authority charges into the store, and even as everyone is trying to deescalate the situation the cop shoots, misses the robber, and kills the lottery winner. Sterling fires back and the cop is hit several times.
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Sterling is now the owner of the lottery ticket. He takes the owner and the two others, a pregnant waitress Ana Marlene, played by Jessica Garza, and her companion, Abraham, played by Elliot Knight, who we later find out is a pianist, into the back office to erase the security camera.
Sterling soon realizes that in order to secure the winnings he will need a story, and the three former hostages now accomplices are perfect. After they clean the floor and pull the bodies into the storage room, they realize they need to dump the bodies.
After they dump the lottery ticket winner's car, they will be home free. Abraham is forced to take the car to Fisher Island and dump it and then return and Ana Marlene, is forced to wait until he returns. While this is going on the cop everyone thought was dead was only unconscious and has called his dad, Dick Sims, played by Jason Wiles, who we find out is dirty and took a plea deal and never gave up his accomplices and told him about the lottery ticket and the shooting.
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With Abraham gone, Sterling, Amir and Ana Marlene are waiting for him to return, when Sterling says, "Of course, we gonna get away with this because as of today we all rich."
This sets up an unexpected and shocking finale.
Your Lucky Day is dynamic and captivates from the first scene. A hard-hitting uncompromising thrill ride with pop-ups and unexpected surprises. The ensemble cast deliver authentic and realistic performances. They are all and each believable. The screenplay is very well written.
Riveting, Your Lucky Day, a must-see sleeper hit, opens in theaters November 10 and on digital platforms November 14, 2023. See it! Electrifying!
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Country: U.S.
Language: English.
Runtime: 89 minutes.
Director: Dan Brown.
Producer: Luke Barnett, Adam Baxter, Dan Brown.
Writer: Dan Brown.
Cast: Angus Cloud, Elliot Knight, Jessica Garza, Sterling Beaumon, Mousa Hussein Kraish, Spencer Garrett, Jason O'Mara, Jason Wiles, Sebastian Sozzi, Charlie Magdaleno, Jaylen Moore, Brendan Morrow, Yuir Brown, Katherine LaVictoire, Mary E. Kennedy, Daniel Gomez, Kim Cooper, Bowen Davis.
