Lucky Break (1994 film)

Lucky Break
US release poster
Directed byBen Lewin
Written byBen Lewin
Produced byJudi Levine
Bob Weis
StarringGia Carides
Anthony La Paglia
CinematographyVincent Monton
Edited byPeter Carrodus
Music byPaul Grabowsky
Production
companies
Generations Films
Lewin Films
Such Much Films
Pandora Cinema
Australian Film Finance Corporation (AFFC)
Distributed byUnited International Pictures
Release date
  • 20 October 1994 (1994-10-20) (Australia)
Running time
94 minutes
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
Box office$197,540 (Australia)[1]

Lucky Break (released in the United States as Paperback Romance) is a 1994 Australian romantic comedy film directed and written by Ben Lewin, about an eccentric romance novelist.[2] Actress Rebecca Gibney was nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role by the Australian Film Institute in 1995 for her role in the film.[3] The film was a critical success in Australia[4] but flopped at both the domestic and international box office, where it received generally mixed reviews from critics.

Plot

Sophie (Gia Carides) is an Australian romance novelist, with a wild imagination. She is also a polio survivor who cannot walk without crutches and a leg brace and who is used to indulging her romantic and lustful fantasies (all of which are shown onscreen) only in her imagination and through her novels. After she breaks her leg and finds herself treated normally for the first time in her life, Sophie meets and begins a relationship with Eddie (Anthony LaPaglia). Similarly to one of Sophie's bodice-ripping page-turners, though, Eddie is about to marry his wealthy and shrewish fiancée, Gloria (Rebecca Gibney) and is also under police investigation for a recent jewelry robbery.

Cast

Reception

The film received rave reviews but did not do well at the box office, opening tenth in Australia with a gross of $114,950 in its first week.[4][5] It went on to gross just $197,540 in Australia.[1]

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a score of 33% based on 9 reviews, with an average rating of 5.4/10.[6]

David Stratton of Variety wrote "Lucky Break adds a few new wrinkles to the venerable and resurgent formula of romantic comedy. Writer/director Ben Lewin comes up with some oddball ideas again, but his screenplay lacks the wit and zaniness that might have propelled this modest offering into wider distribution".[7]

References

  1. ^ a b "Australian Films at the Australian Box Office" Archived 9 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine. Film Victoria. Retrieved 13 November 2012.
  2. ^ Andrew L. Urban, "Ben Lewin", Cinema Papers, October 1994 p38-42.
  3. ^ "Lucky Break". IMDb. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
  4. ^ a b Groves, Don (31 October 1994). "Autumn falls on vibrant o'seas B.O.". Variety. p. 14.
  5. ^ "International box office". Variety. 31 October 1994. p. 14. $84,522; $A1.36=$1
  6. ^ "Lucky Break (1994)". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
  7. ^ Stratton, David (3 October 1994). "Lucky Break". Variety.


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