Just My Luck (2006)

Manhattanite Ashley is known to many as the luckiest woman around. After a chance encounter with a down-and-out young man, however, she realizes that she's swapped her fortune for his.

Director:

Donald Petrie

Writers:

I. Marlene King (screenplay), Amy Harris (screenplay),

Stars:

Lindsay Lohan, Chris Pine, Samaire Armstrong

6 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Lindsay Lohan	...	Ashley Albright
Chris Pine	...	Jake Hardin
Samaire Armstrong	...	Maggie
Bree Turner	...	Dana
Faizon Love	...	Damon Phillips
Missi Pyle	...	Peggy Braden
Makenzie Vega	...	Katy
Carlos Ponce	...	Antonio
Tom Fletcher	...	Himself - McFly Band Member
Danny Jones	...	Himself - McFly Band Member
Harry Judd	...	Himself - McFly Band Member
Dougie Poynter	...	Himself - McFly Band Member
Tovah Feldshuh	...	Madame Z
Jaqueline Fleming	...	Tiffany
Dane Rhodes	...	Mac

Storyline

In Manhattan, Ashley Albright is a lucky woman and very successful in the agency where she works. The clumsy Jake Hardin is an unlucky aspirant manager of the rock band McFly, who is unsuccessfully trying to contact the entrepreneur Damon Phillips to promote his band. When Ashley meets Jake in a masquerade party, they kiss each other, swapping her fortune with his bad luck.

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Plot Keywords:

luck | masquerade | band | bad luck | kiss | 

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Taglines:

Everything can change with a kiss.

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Genres:

Comedy | Fantasy | Romance

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for some brief sexual references

Details

Official Sites:

20th Century Fox [fr] 20th Century Fox [us]

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

12 May 2006 (USA)

Also Known As:

Lady Luck

Filming Locations:

Grand Central Station, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$28,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$16,032 (Chile) (18 August 2006)

Gross:

$331,344 (South Africa) (25 August 2006)

Company Credits

Production Co:

New Regency Pictures, Cheyenne Enterprises, Regency Enterprises

Technical Specs

Runtime:

103 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital DTS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The shots of the McFly concert in Times Square were actually shot in England for McFly's home-fan base. While changing lighting and camera angles, McFly would play their other songs for the fans before playing the ones for the movie while filming.

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Goofs

The back of Ashley's Cosmopolitan magazine changes from white prior to getting on the elevator, to black when she exits the elevator.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Ashley Albright: Good morning, Oscar.

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Connections

References Sex and the City (1998)

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Soundtracks

"I've Got You"
Written by Tom Fletcher, Danny Jones and Grant Gouldman
Performed by McFly
Produced by Hugh Padgham
McFly appears courtesy of The Island Records Group

User Reviews

no surprises, it's as bad as you expected

Girl who takes her supernatural good luck for granted loses her mojo to unlucky but surprisingly cute loser. Of course you are wondering what happens next. Does she get it back? Does she learn a life lesson along the way? Do the two fall in love in the end?

This isn't even the kind of bad movie that you can enjoy watching for the humor of how bad it is. Those are the movies with amateur actors or plots that don't make sense because they ran out of money half way through. Or the ones where they try to do something innovative and are just weird. This is worse -- it's professionally bad. Everything is smooth and marginally professional and completely predictable, and painfully boring.

I saw this because there was a slight "not as bad as you expect" buzz, and now I'll admit I was suckered. This movie is so formulaic I doubt I'll even remember having seen it a year from now.