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((Short description|2000 film by Peter Cattaneo))
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((Infobox film
| name = Lucky Break
| image = Lucky Break quad.jpg
| caption = UK quad poster
| writer = [[Ronan Bennett]] (screenplay)<br />[[Stephen Fry]] (lyrics)
| starring = ((Plainlist|
* [[James Nesbitt]]
* [[Olivia Williams]]
* [[Timothy Spall]]
* [[Bill Nighy]]
* [[Lennie James]]
* [[Christopher Plummer]]
))
| music = [[Anne Dudley]]
| director = [[Peter Cattaneo]]
| producer = Peter Cattaneo <br>[[Barnaby Thompson]]
| cinematography = [[Alwin H. Küchler]]
| editing = [[David Gamble (film editor)|David Gamble]]
| studio = [[Film4 Productions|FilmFour Productions]]<br>Fragile Films<br>Senator Film
| distributor = FilmFour Distributors (United Kingdom)<br>Senator Filmverleih (Germany)<br>[[Paramount Pictures]]<br>[[Miramax|Miramax Films]] (United States, Australia and New Zealand)
| released = 24 August 2001 (United Kingdom)<br>8 November 2001 (Germany)<br>19 April 2002 (United States)
| country = United Kingdom<br>Germany<br>United States
| runtime = 107 minutes
| language = English
| budget =
))

'''''Lucky Break''''' is a 2001 crime comedy film starring [[James Nesbitt]] and directed by [[Peter Cattaneo]].<ref>((cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2001/08/08/luck_break_2001_review.shtml|last=Smith|first=Neil|title=BBC - Films - review - Lucky Break|publisher=[[BBC]]|date=23 August 2001|access-date=29 July 2021))</ref> The film is a co-production between the United Kingdom, United States and Germany.

==Plot==
James 'Jimmy' Hands and Rudy 'Rud' Guscott are two friends who used to play "Cops & Robbers" when they were young. Now adults, they plan to actually rob a bank, but the robbery goes wrong and Hands flees the bank leaving Guscott trapped behind the security shutters. Hands is caught and arrested not long later.

After being sentenced to do time in [[prison]], Hands and Guscott make a daring escape plan as the prison is scheduled to put on a theatrical show of ''Nelson: The Musical''. Hands and Guscott plan to use the show as cover their daring break-out attempt. During rehearsals, the inmates are unable to find a [[pianist]] for the show, until one inmate, Cliff Gumbell ([[Timothy Spall]]) volunteers and impresses them with his amazing piano skills. Hands is cast as Nelson (against his will) and Guscott is cast as Hardy, much to Guscott's dismay as his character kisses Nelson as he dies.

The escape plan proves difficult to proceed with, as one of the guards becomes very suspicious of Hands. Further complications arise when one of the more dangerous inmates threatens Hands to help him escape, as well as Hands warming to a prison employee named Annabel. During a prison visiting day, Gumbell is devastated to learn that his son is spending more time with his uncle, and that his wife is very disappointed being married to a criminal. Unable to live with the shame, Gumbell commits [[suicide]] in his cell.

The night of the show arrives and the escape plan is put into action. However, the dangerous inmate is tricked into going over the 30-foot prison wall and falls down the other side, where he is captured. Hands and Guscott are about to escape when Hands reveals his intentions to stay because of his feelings for Annabel. Guscott reluctantly lets Hands go and escapes with two other inmates, one of whom has a friend who arrives in a plane to help them escape.

Back in the prison, one of the guards resigns from his job over frustration of the inmates escaping and becomes a car park warden. Hands is later released from prison and starts a new life with Annabel.

==Cast list==
* [[James Nesbitt]] as James 'Jimmy' Hands / Lord Nelson in Show
* [[Olivia Williams]] as Annabel Sweep / Lady Hamilton in Show
* [[Timothy Spall]] as Cliff Gumbell
* [[Bill Nighy]] as Roger 'Rog' Chamberlain / King George III in Show
* [[Lennie James]] as Rudy 'Rud' Guscott / Hardy in Show
* [[Ron Cook]] as Mr. Perry, the Guard
* [[Frank Harper]] as John Toombes
* [[Raymond Waring]] as Darren
* [[Christopher Plummer]] as Graham Mortimer
* [[Julian Barratt]] as Paul Dean
* [[Peter Wight (actor)|Peter Wight]] as Officer George Beorge Barratt
* [[Celia Imrie]] as Amy Chamberlin
* [[Peter McNamara]] as Ward
* [[Andy Linden (actor)|Andy Linden]] as Kenny
* [[Ram John Holder]] as Old Billy Morris

==Production==
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[[Anne Dudley]] collaborated with [[Stephen Fry]] to write and produce songs for the send-up musical "Nelson".

Exterior prison scenes were filmed at Dartmoor Prison, Princetown.<ref>((Cite web |title=Prison to host film premiere. - Free Online Library |url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Prison+to+host+film+premiere.-a077549939 |access-date=2023-02-06 |website=www.thefreelibrary.com))</ref>

==Reception==
The film holds a 48% rating on [[Rotten Tomatoes]] based on 44 reviews with the critics consensus: "Lucky Break fails to do anything new with The Full Monty formula".<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/lucky_break|title=Lucky Break|website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|publisher=[[Fandango Media]]|access-date=29 July 2021))</ref> On [[Metacritic]], it holds a 48% rating based on 22 reviews, indicating "Mixed or average reviews".<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/lucky-break|title=Lucky Break|publisher=[[Metacritic]]|access-date=29 July 2021))</ref>

[[Dave Kehr]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' said that "Mr. Cattaneo restricts himself to the smiling blandness that has become the stock in trade of British comedies made for export, turning in a film that is forced, familiar and thoroughly condescending".<ref>((cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/05/movies/film-in-review-lucky-break.html|last=Kehr|first=Dave|authorlink=Dave Kehr|title=Film Review; Lucky Break|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=5 April 2002|access-date=29 July 2021))</ref>

Michael O'Sullivan of ''[[The Washington Post]]'' wrote "Apart from the deja vu all over again, ''Lucky Break'' is no worse a film than ''[[Breaking Out (film)|Breaking Out]]'', and [that film] was utterly charming".<ref>((cite news|last=O'Sullivan|first=Michael|title=Lucky Break|date=18 April 2002|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]))</ref>

According to [[Derek Elley]] of ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'', the film is "[c]hained to the floor by a script that isn't particularly funny, direction that goes for realism rather than stylization and an almost complete lack of comic timing".<ref>((cite magazine|last=Elley|first=Derek|author-link=Derek Elley|title=Lucky Break|date=14 August 2001|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]))</ref>

==References==
((Reflist))

==External links==
* ((IMDb title|0246134))

((Peter Cattaneo))

[[Category:2001 films]]
[[Category:British crime comedy films]]
[[Category:American crime comedy films]]
[[Category:German crime comedy films]]
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[[Category:British prison films]]
[[Category:American prison films]]
[[Category:Film4 Productions films]]
[[Category:Miramax films]]
[[Category:Paramount Pictures films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Peter Cattaneo]]
[[Category:Films scored by Anne Dudley]]
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