Lucky Break Movie Review 2001

Smalltime crooks Jimmy (Nesbitt) and Rudy (James) wind up in the same prison after a bank job gone wrong. Eccentric prison governor Mortimer (Plummer) loves musicals and has written one of his own. Jimmy encourages Mortimer to let the prisoners stage his opus and plans an escape attempt during the performance. Film gets schzoid with comic rehearsals, a tentative romance between Jimmy and support worker Annabel (Williams), a suicide, and the confusing prison break.

Distribution

Paramount Home Video, 5555 Melrose Ave., 5555 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90038, Phone: (323)956-5000, URL: http://www.paramount.com, Remarks: Does not handle retail queries from consumers; contact your local video distributor.

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 109 minutes.
Originally from British.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Men in Prison, Great Escapes, Great Britain, Stagestruck

Screenplay

Ronan Bennett

Cast

James Nesbitt, Lennie James, Christopher Plummer, Olivia Williams, Timothy Spall, Bill Nighy, Ron Cook, Frank Harper, Peter Wight, Celia Imrie, Raymond Waring, Julian Barratt

Cinematography

Alwin Kuchler

Director

Peter Cattaneo

Music

Anne Dudley

Other

John Taylor, David Gamble, Andrew Munro, Ffion Elinor, Max Gottlieb

Producer

Barnaby Thompson, FilmFour, Senator Film Entertainment, Fragile Films, Paramount Pictures