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I can't tell too much about this one. Yes it's a good movie, but not more. I've read the novel, but there isn't a big difference between book and movie. The book is little boring and in the movie plot is usual and actors' play was highly mediocre. So, this movie fits for review only once.

Chances and Lucky are great reads, but to say that the miniseries doesn't do it justice is a HUGE understatement. It's not the worst thing ever made. I just wish that the powers that were had been a little more faithful to the book, at least in the casting part. I mean, blonde, blue-eyed Nicolette Sheridan as Lucky, YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING! That also goes for Sandra Bullock being cast as Maria and Shawnee Smith being cast as Olimpia. The casting director was either drunk or in a hurry. The closest that the casting people got was with Gino, played by Vincent Irizarry. There were also a lot of plots that were skipped, like Dario's homosexuality, Carrie's abuse and rape as well as how and why she came to be a prostitute, the stories of Gino's abusive father, and the list goes on and on. I would pay anything to see a "CORRECTLY CASTED AND NON-POLITICALLY CORRECT" remake of this movie, whether it be on the small screen or on the big screen, preferably on the small screen, or otherwise many subplots may have to be sacrificed due to time. Let me know if it ever happens.

I thought that this was a good movie and that Nicolette Sheridan did a great job in the role of "Lucky". However there are parts of this movie which are not the same as the book. Overall the casting of Vincent Irizarry and Michael Nader were perfect as "Gino" and "Enzio" and if you don't blink you will see Sandra Bullock in this film.

As other reviewers have already mentioned, the casting is awful and, with the exceptions of Gino, Enzio and Steven, everything else is inaccurate. I didn't have a problem with the first part of the series. It was the second half. It was a complete rewrite of the Lucky and characters were completely left out. I loved the books and had just reread them when I stumbled across the miniseries on YouTube. Now I know why it never made it to DVD. Awful. I can't believe Jackie Collins (as Executive Producer no less!) signed off on this hot mess.

Calling all soap opera fans: check out Lucky Chances, a double-feature miniseries combining Jackie Collins's two novels Lucky and Chances. The series continued, but this is a very satisfactory five hours. It follows the Santangelo family through decades and generations, and although you get a five-minute opening with Nicolette Sheridan, it's a pretty linear story once we go back in time and see her father, Vincent Irizarry, as a young man before she was even a twinkle in his eye. This is soap at its best. There is a glamorous setting, with exceedingly wealthy mobsters who have the world at their fingertips. The women are beautiful, with big hair and slim bodies they frequently show off in bikinis and lingerie. The men are hunky, great lovers, and sweep women off their feet with silk sheets, champagne, and unforgettable nights. Scandals, murders, secrets, blackmail, infidelity, forced marriages, power, seduction, and revenge all run rampant through the three episodes.

I love this genre, and I've already bought a copy of Miss Collins's novels. Soap operas are my favorite genre of fiction to read. So, yes, it's cheesy, ridiculous, and silly. But I loved every minute of it.