SummaryT.K. Poole, Colee Dunn and Fred Cheever arrive in New York from Germany only to find their connecting flights canceled due to a power outage. Anxious to get to their respective destinations, they agree to share a rented minivan to suburban St. Louis where Cheever is to reunite with his wife and teenage son. From there, the other two plan to fly t... Read More
Directed By:Neil Burger
Written By:Neil Burger, Dirk Wittenborn
The Lucky Ones
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Mixed or Average
53
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Generally Favorable
6.8
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Metascore
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53
48% Positive
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75
This movie has its own emotional sorcery. In a raw, humorous way, it grasps how hope and desperation spur magical thinking and, sometimes, real magic.
70
Because the lead actors work so well together, adding depth and levels of vulnerability to fairly underwritten roles, the emotional consequences of the sense of displacement these "lucky" characters -- lucky to be alive, lucky to have met one another -- must deal with always ring true.
63
As close as a movie about three Iraq war soldiers should come to mediocre TV comedy.
58
It's not a political film, but it's also not a bland recitation of homilies about the honor of serving one's country. It's a jokey road movie, in which three soldiers heading home from Iraq are forced into a cross-country van ride together.
50
If this is meant to look fresh while still being sensitive, it doesn't and it isn't.
50
This moderately engaging, offbeat film requires a patience that audiences haven't demonstrated recently for stories concerning the fate of soldiers at home or abroad.
25
Cheap, ignorant, tone-deaf and condescending, but what's strangest about it is that it actually thinks it's pro-soldier even as it portrays vets home on leave as foolish (Rachel McAdams), desperate (Tim Robbins) and dishonorable (Michael Pena) while playing all three situations for laughs.
User score
Generally Favorable
6.8
78% Positive
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22% Negative
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
Mar 22, 2018
3
Three Iraq war vets, on their way back from the front, end up sharing a car for a long ride home. One is recovering from a back wound, another got his balls shot off, and the girl wants to bring a guitar back to the family of a young man who died. I didn't make it all the way through. At first I thought this might be like "Planes, Trains & Automobiles" but no, it is a character-driven story in which the characters are not very interesting.
Production Company:
- Lionsgate
- Roadside Attractions
- QED International
- Sherazade Film Development
- Visitor Pictures
- Overnight
Release Date:Sep 26, 2008
Duration:1 h 55 m
Rating:R
Tagline:Sometimes losing your way home means finding yourself
