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The Lucky Ones

  • 2008
  • R
  • 1h 55min
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6,9/10
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The Lucky Ones (2008)
This is the theatrical trailer for The Lucky Ones, directed by  Neil Burger.
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Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueThree different soldiers - a woman and two men - return from war and facing the peaceful life's problems of each other.Three different soldiers - a woman and two men - return from war and facing the peaceful life's problems of each other.Three different soldiers - a woman and two men - return from war and facing the peaceful life's problems of each other.

  • Réalisation
    • Neil Burger
  • Scénario
    • Neil Burger
    • Dirk Wittenborn
  • Casting principal
    • Rachel McAdams
    • Tim Robbins
    • Michael Peña
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    • Réalisation
      • Neil Burger
    • Scénario
      • Neil Burger
      • Dirk Wittenborn
    • Casting principal
      • Rachel McAdams
      • Tim Robbins
      • Michael Peña
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    Rachel McAdams
    Rachel McAdams
    • Colee
    Tim Robbins
    Tim Robbins
    • Cheaver
    Michael Peña
    Michael Peña
    • TK
    Molly Hagan
    Molly Hagan
    • Pat Cheaver
    Mark L. Young
    Mark L. Young
    • Scott Cheaver
    Howard Platt
    Howard Platt
    • Stan Tilson
    Arden Myrin
    Arden Myrin
    • Barbara Tilson
    Coburn Goss
    Coburn Goss
    • Peter Tilson
    John Heard
    John Heard
    • Bob
    Jennifer Joan Taylor
    Jennifer Joan Taylor
    • Bob's Wife
    Katherine LaNasa
    Katherine LaNasa
    • Janet
    Leo Ford
    • Janet's Husband
    Susan Yeagley
    Susan Yeagley
    • Kendra
    Emily Swallow
    Emily Swallow
    • Brandi
    John Diehl
    John Diehl
    • Tom Klinger
    Annie Corley
    Annie Corley
    • Jeanie Klinger
    Katie Korby
    • Shannon
    Kirk B.R. Woller
    Kirk B.R. Woller
    • Army Psychologist
    • Réalisation
      • Neil Burger
    • Scénario
      • Neil Burger
      • Dirk Wittenborn
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    8moviewaffle

    Underrated gem

    I'd never heard of Neil Burger's "The Lucky Ones" until a friend recommended it to me after catching it on a flight to Australia. Released in theatres stateside last year, it was pulled after making a paltry $267,000 in its opening week. This is a hell of a shame as what we have here is the first great movie about the Iraq war. Three soldiers return to the states on leave and through circumstances end up on a road trip to Vegas. Michael Pena is a cocky Sargeant with a wound in his manhood, struggling to come to terms with how his Fiancé will react to his impotence. Tim Robbins is a veteran trying to find the money to send his kid to college and thus stop him enlisting. But the standout performance, and quite possibly the standout performance of the past year full stop, comes from Rachel McAdams as a naive private returning her dead boyfriends guitar to his family. Her turn here is far superior to anything Oscar nominated this year and probably the best from an American actress since Hilary Swank in Million Dollar Baby. The films strongest point is its lack of a "message". Pro war or Anti war, you'll find your own point of view here and Burger is subtle enough to allow you the privilege. I won't give it away but this has a great ambiguous seventies style ending, just the way I like 'em. It's always a good sign when a movie ends and you wish you could get to see more of the characters, and it's an all too rare occurrence in modern cinema. For this Burger and his cast should be applauded.
    ledpenny

    excellent and believable acting

    Here you have three people, no dramatic problems, stuck in an airport. They, strangers to each other, join in a trip across from the East to the Midwest. Ho hum. Oh, wait, Tim Robbins is in it, OK, give it 6 minutes. Then, this believable trio display the best part of human life...empathy. You fantasize, in somber spirit, that humans are like these three. The movie comes to a quiet, completed end, and you love each character and find yourself hoping they have a good life, because they are no longer Tim Robbins, Mike Pena, and Rachel McAdams, the actors. The "public" that they navigate around seem always insincere with their 'thank you for serving', although in real life, past returning veterans were treated with total disdain. The scene in jail and the phony confession to a robbery seemed...not quite honest or believable, but it was the only weak scene.
    7nturner

    A Gentleness That Rings True

    Three soldiers who have received non life threatening wounds in Iraq are together on a plane to New York. Two of them are on thirty day leaves while the other has served his time and is on his way home. Due to a power outage, all flights out of New York have been canceled. The three agree to rent a car together in order to continue the trip to their destinations. Thus begins a road trip that is highly dramatic with its share of comic events.

    Fred Cheaver is the middle aged father figure of the three - a man who never really expected to do anything in the army except serve his domestic reserve duty. He is glad to be rid of the whole thing and is headed home to his wife and son. The two young soldiers who accompany Fred are Colee Dunn and T.K. Poole. Colee is a bright-eyed innocent who is on a mission for a fallen comrade who saved her life. T.K. is a no nonsense soldier from a family of soldiers who plans to make the army his career and move up the chain of command.

    Whereas, Fred's quest is to return home to wife and son, Colee's and T.K.'s goals are to travel to Las Vegas for two entirely different reasons. Colee wants to return her dead comrade's treasured guitar to his family. T.K.'s reason is somewhat mysterious, but we know it is related in some way to his injury that has left him temporarily impotent.

    As with all road trip films, the experiences and interactions of these three lead to conclusions not expected by them or the viewers.

    Unlike most films featuring vets returning from the horrors of war, this film is not filled with dark angst - not to say the characters are not well-fleshed and genuine. These three are real people with real problems, but their depictions are not heavy-handed.

    During this film, the viewer gets to enjoy the work of three excellent actors. Tim Robbins gives his usual fine, understated performance as the older man facing some totally unexpected twists of fate. Rachel McAdams gives Colee a likable innocence but also reveals some darker layers of her character. Michael Peña is very, very good as the macho guy with a heart who only wants to be a good soldier. Watching these three interact is a real treat.

    Some may consider the treatment of the subject matter of this film too light handed, but it has a gentleness that rings true. It is surely worth watching.
    8mr_popcorn

    an awesome quirky little film.

    Neil Burger's offbeat, quirky, dramatic movie is a triumph. It succeeds in all the aspects, from the technical parts to the acting, I can't find a single negative thing about it. Burger doesn't dilly-dally around, he went straight to the point of his subject, giving a fair amount of time for each of the three characters (McAdams, Pena and Robbins) to develop and eventually you can't help but really like them...a lot. Especially McAdams but more on that later. The script is tightly wound, the chemistry between the three protagonists doesn't seem forced, the movie doesn't force you to like them the moment the movie starts but instead, these colorful characters will gradually grow on you.

    Tim Robbins, one of my favorite actors, doesn't disappoint. 2008, I have seen him in two movies the other one being The City of Ember. And as long as a movie has Tim Robbins in it, I'm sold. That's why I watched the movie in the first place. Michael Pena, another great guy, gives off a good vibe towards the movie and once you know what's been bothering his character, you can't help but laugh at how one-sided and ridiculous his problem is. Pena gives one of his greatest performance on screen. And of course, the belle of the ball, the star of the show, Rachel McAdams gives a quirky, zesty and joyful performance as a lovable Southerner and I can't help but be reminded of another quirky, zesty and joyful character, Amelie. She just keeps the laughs rolling in and steal every scene she's in. She gives the character such depth that one might come off as one dimensional had it been portrayed by a lesser talent. Definitely an underrated performance for 2008.

    Highly recommended.
    MacAindrais

    Here's to being Lucky

    The Lucky Ones (2008) ***1/2

    Here's a fact: movies about the current war in Iraq have done about as well as... well, the current war in Iraq. To be fair, none of them have really been great. Even Tommy Lee Jones' In the Valley of Elah did not manage well financially, though it did manage to get half decent reception from critics. Understandably most of the films have been pretty heavy handed, and just as understandably, audiences have been satiating those taste buds with other, less controversial and subjects. But then comes along The Lucky Ones, starring Tim Robbins, Michael Pena, and Rachael McAdams. The film is about 3 soldiers returning home from Iraq; two on leave for 30 days, the other out for good. Instead of sticking to the usual downbeat tones of other Iraq films, it's more of a hopeful charmer and quite a funny one too. It's really more of a good old fashioned American road movie with soldiers than a war movie. But that didn't stop people from not going. The film got only limited release through 2008, despite gaining fans on the festival circuit.

    Three soldiers return home from Iraq after meeting each other on the plane ride. When they arrive on American soil to catch their connecting flights, they discover that the airport is backed up solid due to a black out. Rather than wait around, Cheaver (Robbins) decides he's close enough to his home in St. Louis to rent a car and drive. TK and Colee (Pena and McAdams) decide they should join him. They're both heading to Las Vegas and figure they can probably make the drive and catch a flight out of St. Louis by the time they would here.

    Colee is heading to Vegas to return her boyfriend's vintage guitar to his family. He died in the war. TK is heading to Vegas for some professional help before he meets up with his fiancé. Hookers and strippers? Colee inquires. Kind of - but not for the usual reasons. You see, they all have wounds, but some more sensitive than others. Cheaver injured his back in a not so heroic way, but he's more amused and relieved about it than embarrassed. Colee's been shot in the leg, and sports an unhealed wound and a limp. TK gets the best of both their worlds: he's been wounded by shrapnel in a not so public area. Now, as he says, it doesn't work right. He's going to Vegas to meet with some "professionals" to test his own little soldier out. "I can't go back to my fiancé without knowing it works, we'd have nothing to talk about!" A strange predicament for two people about to be married.

    Cheaver, being the oldest in his 40s, is usually something of a father figure to the younger TK and Colee. On their trip those two first bicker before becoming closer. Colee openly talks about her late ex, and tells the tales he told her of robbing a Casino in Vegas to pay off his loan shark debts. TK responds with coldness and ridicules the dead man for his character. It results, inevitably in having to pull over and the keys inevitably being locked in the car.

    The Lucky One's certainly doesn't go anywhere we really don't expect it to, but the paths it takes to get there aren't necessarily always the one's we expect. For example, given how quickly the trio arrive in St. Louis, it's obvious something will have to happen to keep it going. It's no big surprise to reveal that his wife wants a divorce, though she apparently is not cheating on him. Meanwhile their son breaks the big news that he got into Stanford, but needs 20 grand to secure his spot. So Cheaver decides he'll go to visit his brother or maybe even go to Vegas and win the money. That guitar Colee carries around is actually even worth 20 grand, though he doesn't want it, and she has to give it to her dead boyfriends family. She wants to give it to him but obviously knows she can't, although what she knows about her dead boyfriend seems to be less and less as time goes on.

    The movie is populated with the usual oddball characters and chance encounters you find on cross country road trips, or in cross country road trip movies. There's a stop over at a church where they meet a very wealthy parishioner who invites them to a party, where among other things they encounter a young man against the war, another man who thinks after meeting the trio there's a good reason why they're losing the war, and a horny wife with the hots for the old Cheaver. Elsewhere they encounter the usual road side bars and motels, traveling sex workers and a rogue Tornado. And of course, along the way each confronts their own issues and demons.

    The Lucky Ones is a funny and winning little movie. It's above all else a very human movie. The characters are what makes it succeed, not it's story. All three leads give wonderful and sincere performances, particularly McAdams as Colee. She's naive but not unintelligent, and tough but still vulnerable.

    What could have been a downer filled with cheap shots and cheap tactics is instead smart and even handed, and above all respectful. That's not to say that it's necessarily a "safe" movie - but then again a movie that's best described as a road comedy about Iraq Veterans probably cannot be. It's above all else a very human movie. The characters are what makes it succeed, not it's story. All three leads give wonderful and sincere performances, particularly McAdams as Colee. She's naive but not unintelligent, and tough but still vulnerable. The movie ends as the soldiers' leave expires and they must return. At least for now they've been the lucky ones. Here's to hoping they stayed lucky.

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      Emily Swallow's debut.
    • Gaffes
      When TK is at the airport bar in Las Vegas the bartender refills his old fashioned glass with a (generous) shot of tequila. She fills the glass almost halfway full. He takes a slug from the glass and puts it down but in the next shot it's more than half full.
    • Citations

      [Colee finally feels T.K's penis work for the first time]

      Colee Dunn: Is it working?

      T.K. Poole: What?

      Colee Dunn: Is it working?

      T.K. Poole: As a matter of fact, yeah, its working pretty good right now.

      Colee Dunn: That's great!

      Colee Dunn: [Colee hugs T.K. when she feels his penis working] Uh, yeah, okay. Yep, that's working. Um... that's great. Ahh. Wow. We should get out.

    • Crédits fous
      Honey wagon driver - Gary Suckahosee
    • Connexions
      Features America's Got Talent (2006)
    • Bandes originales
      Talented
      Written and Performed by Sourcerer

      Published by Neenoon Tunes (ASCAP) / Pick 'n Sing (BMI)

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    Détails

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    • Date de sortie
      • 26 septembre 2008 (États-Unis)
    • Pays d’origine
      • États-Unis
      • Bahreïn
    • Site officiel
      • Official site (United States)
    • Langue
      • Anglais
    • Aussi connu sous le nom de
      • The Return
    • Lieux de tournage
      • Bolingbrook, Illinois, États-Unis
    • Sociétés de production
      • Lionsgate
      • Roadside Attractions
      • QED International
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    • Budget
      • 15 000 000 $US (estimé)
    • Montant brut aux États-Unis et au Canada
      • 266 967 $US
    • Week-end de sortie aux États-Unis et au Canada
      • 183 088 $US
      • 28 sept. 2008
    • Montant brut mondial
      • 287 567 $US
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      1 heure 55 minutes
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      • 1.85 : 1

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