Jackpot Movie Review 2001

Brothers Mark and Michael Polish follow up their critically lauded debut "Twin Falls Idaho" with this road tale of karaoke and crackpots. Sunny Holiday (Gries) is an aspiring country singer riding the back roads of the remote West with his manager Les (Morris), trying to break into Nashville via the untraveled karaoke route. Neither one seems to realize the futility of his dreams, but Bobbi (Hannah), the wife he's abandoned with their young child, does. The "Jackpot" of the title is his dream of making it big, the way he hopes to support his family (he sends them a lottery ticket each week in lieu of child support) and the name of the Nevada town where he hopes to be discovered. Tries way too hard to be arty in a folksy "look at these eccentric characters" way, but it's not without its own weird charm.

Distribution

Sony Pictures Home Video, Sony Pictures Plz., 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232, Phone: (310)244-7306, Fax: (310)280-2485, URL: http://www.spe.sony.com, Remarks: Formerly Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 100 minutes.
Originally from United States.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Karaoke, Road Trip, Nashville Narratives

Screenplay

Michael Polish, Mark Polish

Cast

Jon(athan) Gries, Garrett Morris, Daryl Hannah, Peggy Lipton, Adam Baldwin, Mac Davis, Crystal Bernard, Anthony Edwards

Cinematography

M. David Mullen

Director

Michael Polish

Music

Stuart Matthewman

Other

Patrick Bauchau, Brian Best, Jonathan Daniel, Shawna Callahan, David Cannizzarro, Bic Owen, Michele Montague

Producer

Mark Polish, Michael Polish, Sony Pictures Classics