An aspiring actor has his life turned upside down when his ex-wife dumps off their bossy, wild daughter into his custody. Her father sends investigator Raymond Campanella (Danny Glover) but he has no luck. I sometimes really hate way American film-making works: when they got so tired of their own clichés, they do a remake of a foreign film, which has foreign clichés. Maybe I just was looking for something clever and witty. Play the best plinko game today!
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The kidnappers don't know what to do with her as she doesn't even remember her own name (it'd be better they'd dump her immediately so this movie wasn't made).
Is a great funny film that can cheer up any day of your life and keep you thinking on some of the scenes after it's been finished. I've seen this movie many, many times and never grow tired of it, something I can't say for most films these days. Herschel Weingrod (screenplay), The film opens as the klutzy Valerie Highsmith (Sheila Kelley) arrives at an airport in Puerto Vallarta. This film is absolutely superb fun. Martin Short Joins Amazon’s Lee Daniels-Whitney Cummings Pilot "Good People"'The Martian' Review: A Rousing and Funny Space Adventure
For the "new" version they found Martin Short and Danny Glover who will always be linked with his Lethal Weapon-roles. 1 out of 1 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Pure Luck is not worth as many viewings, but is well worth an evening with the kids.
The scenery gives you a nostalgic feel, and the actors are just plain brilliant.
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The story is the same, almost word-by-word, yet the jokes don't work. It doesn't have ANY of the elements listed above. We refer back to pure luck and think how funny it was. You can watch it with your Kids!
0 out of 0 found this helpful. The original Depardieu character in La Chevre was an impatient take-charge man who always had to exercise self-control in the presence of the guy with bad luck, knowing all the while that he was really the professional private eye and the competent one and forced to play along with the Richard character's self-delusions about his own investigative prowess. Two con men hide out in a house while the owner is away; one of them assumes the identity of the absent house sitter when the owner's relatives come to visit, only for further complications to set in. I loved this movie.
Pure Luck #2 Achievement in Peregrin: Complete the Chapter 5 plane flame puzzle first try. I don't know what all the negative comments are about. Emailed Universal Studios within the past 6 months and requested same.
A test pilot is miniaturized in a secret experiment, and accidentally injected into a hapless store clerk. I like him better in the comic roles but he can be sinister as well.
Never over-acting, just plain funny.
The chemistry between himself and co-star Danny Glover is palpable.
Why they did it was totally a dark artea for me but one of the most popular things in Hollywood were making Americanised versions from French comedies. It is fair to say Short's auburn-dyed, permed hairdo in PURE LUCK outperforms Short at every turn. Short has fallen a long, long way from his INNERSPACE days, and Glover simply looks embarrassed. I find myself smiling for hours after watching it, picturing Martin Short's face as he tries to appear engaged during the cigar smoke-filled police briefing. Was this review helpful? Phoebe and fellow American Julian Peters meet in Rome, find a lost dog, and agree to return it to Monte Carlo to split the five thousand dollar reward. If you have not yet seen this movie, and are looking for something hilarious, fun, imaginative, creative, and that will leave a positive impression on you and your family, than this movie is definitely for you. This movie is indeed one of the all-time funniest movies I've seen. 3 out of 7 found this helpful. The problem is that this American remake of "La Chevre" pales in comparison. 20 out of 27 found this helpful. There is not much to find offensive in this movie. So on it's own terms, this is a good enough movie.
Depardieu was the rational Cartesian man who didn't believe in good or bad luck and you had the constant feeling he was about to boil over as the Pierre Richard character continually proved him wrong.
12 out of 16 found this helpful. Plot. Small time con man Frank Grimes comes along and takes her hostage.
The premise was a great idea but it seemed so forced most of the time. Well the biggest problem is that the goal of this film is Martin Short doing slapstickgags and after 5 minutes you know when you see a staircase he will fell or when a door is closed he will bump into it. The idea how to find her is either insane or brilliant - to send after her an equally unlucky person. When they made those movies, they were totally aware, that they are only using the old recipes, which already worked well.
Valerie Highsmith (Sheila Kelley) is the bumbling daughter of a wealthy businessman on vacation in Mexico.
A daughter of a millionaire, distinguish by incredible bad luck, goes missing. Martin Short and Danny Glover going over from NYC to Mexico to search for the accident-prone daughter of Short's big company boss Highsmith. The basic problem is that the original ones were mediocre comedies you will give two stars and a half, so you can imagine the American result... "Pure luck" is the "adaption" of "Le chèvre", a French comedy starring Pierre Richard and Gerard Depardieu. Everything starts when Valerie (Sheila Kelley), a daughter from a rich industrial, decides to go on holiday herself and as she is the typical dumb blonde who is born for bad luck, she soon get kidnapped. Arlo accepts what seems to him to be a dream promotion to Idaho.
This one in particular was based on "Le Chevre" by Francis Veber.