This movie is about obsession. No
it's not about addiction. Just about a guy who lives from one poker game to another. It could just as easily be about remote-control models or painting tin military figures, its just that poker has a social element attached to the obsession. People are important in poker
I know, I play poker. The good thing about Lucky You is the poker; the bad thing is
the poker. While they try to explain Texas Hold'Em, it's pretty half-baked. I rank it up there with Rounders as far as the intensity of the poker play. It's not a romantic comedy! Drew Barrymore is an important prop in the movie, but only slightly more important the cards and less important than Huck's mother's wedding ring (see the movie to know what that means). See this movie for the poker, not because the queen of romantic comedies, Ms Barrymore, is in it. Bana is excellent as the obsessed poker player scion of Duvall, the patriarch of the Cheever Poker Family. (The problem with Duvall is he's digging into his bag of character-actor bits for some more of the grizzle he does so well. Note: Duvall was suppose to be an English professor before he became a poker pro
I didn't see it.) This movie is an excellent study of obsession and those affected by the obsessive person. See it for the poker (lotsa real poker pros in it), not because People magazine's most beautiful person has a supporting role.
Review of Lucky You
