Pure Luck

Name: Pure Luck
Genre: Mystery, Comedy, Crime
Released: August 9, 1991
Duration: 96 min
Rating: 36
Cast: Danny Glover, Harry Shearer, John H. Brennan, Jorge Luke, Jorge Russek

1991

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Universal Pictures | Release Date: August 9, 1991 | PG

Starring: Danny Glover, Harry Shearer, John H. Brennan, Jorge Luke, Jorge Russek, Martin Short, Rodrigo Puebla, Sam Wanamaker, Scott Wilson, Sheila Kelley

Summary: The daughter of a wealthy businessman has disappeared in Mexico, and all the efforts to find her have been unsuccessful. A psychologist, knowing that the girl has an ultra bad luck, persuades her father to send to Mexico one of his employees, an accountant with super bad luck, to find her. Perhaps he will be lucky, and his bad luck couldThe daughter of a wealthy businessman has disappeared in Mexico, and all the efforts to find her have been unsuccessful. A psychologist, knowing that the girl has an ultra bad luck, persuades her father to send to Mexico one of his employees, an accountant with super bad luck, to find her. Perhaps he will be lucky, and his bad luck could help to find the unlucky girl...… Expand

Director: Nadia Tass

Genre(s): Mystery, Comedy, Crime

Rating: PG

Runtime: 96 min

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Hal Hinson

The movie is pure hound, but you'll want to catch Short's every pixilated move. He almost made me wish that the picture would never end. Read full review

Jay Boyar

All things considered, Pure Luck exists somewhere in that vast middle ground of the cinema - the not-badlands. Watching this film won't make you feel as if you've won the lottery, but at least you won't feel like your pen is leaking. [09 Aug 1991, p.8]

Caryn James

Martin Short can do anything, it seems, except find the right movies to star in. Read full review

Bill Cosford

As for comic rhythm, director Nadia Tass has no clue. [10 Aug 1991, p.E1]

Roger Ebert

Pure Luck is a bad movie, all right - with leaden timing, a disorganized screenplay, and stretches where nothing much of interest seems to be happening. Read full review

Marc Savlov

Pure Luck manages to deliver only four decent laughs in its entire 105-minute time. Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

Just about unwatchable — a numbingly repetitive farce in which the cursed Short trips, walks into walls, trips, spills an entire saltshaker onto his breakfast, trips, sets people on fire, trips… Read full review

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