Just My Luck

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Just My Luck

Just My Luck official poster.
Directed by Donald Petrie
Starring Chris Pine
Lindsay Lohan
Jaqueline Fleming
Chris Carmack
Bree Turner
Antonino Camaj
Distributed by 20th Century Fox
Release date(s) United States:
May 12, 2006
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Just My Luck is a romantic comedy film starring Lindsay Lohan and Chris Pine released in the US on May 12, 2006. Lohan has described the film as "a little bit of an over-the-top comedy, but it's funny and it's cute and it's silly." [1] It is rated PG-13 in the US, and PG in the UK and Australia.

Lohan plays an ultra lucky Manhattan girl, Ashley. When asked about her character, Lohan said "She takes advantage of the fact that she has luck, and she does not recognize it and is not thankful, [then] everything just basically goes downhill for her."

Chris Pine plays the role of Jake, a music manager in the film, overseeing the rock band[2][3] McFly (Danny Jones, Tom Fletcher, Dougie Poynter and Harry Judd), played by themselves.

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[edit] Synopsis

The movie is about always lucky Ashley Albright (Lindsay Lohan) who is never used to a normal life. Luck always keeps striking her side and on the other hand there is Jake Hardin (Chris Pine) who is the manager of a band called McFly. He is exactly opposite to Ashley and always has bad luck.

Ashley is asked by her boss to organize a party and even gives her a credit card to get a dress of her choice. Jake wants to come to the party with the idea of meeting a very famous person who could publicize the McFly band.

A fortune teller at the place tells Ashley that there may be a change in her life because of fate and she may get bad luck but Ashley doesn't believe her. When Jake sees Ashley there he is stunned by her beauty and asks her for a dance and neither of them can see the other because they wear masks. When both of them kiss their lucks swap and Jake gets good luck and Ashley gets bad luck. She soon goes to jail because the guy that she set her boss up with turns out to be a prostitute. When she returns home she finds that her house had been affected by a flood. All she gets from her house is some junk which she drops in the elevator.

She goes to her friends' house, and they let her sleep there. At their place she breaks the mirror and then drops her contacts in cat litter and takes it and wears it again. She kisses all the dancers at the party for her luck to come back not knowing that Jake wasn't a dancer and wasn't on the list. She leaves searching for a job and has no money with her as her boss had fired her.

She goes into a restaurant and Jake who had experienced bad times offers to help her. He gives her his old job and tries to introduce her to his little cousin but Ashley thinks it to be a woman who is dating Jake and wants to get away from Jake.

On a rainy day, Ashley is helpless and Jake takes a reluctant Ashley to his huge house where she tries to wash her clothes but puts to much powder into the washing machine, (resulting to a room full of bubbles), and finally meets his cousin.

Later, Jake takes her to the place where McFly is practising and she finds out that Jake is the one who has her luck and kisses him and then Jake gets his bad luck back. As Ashley's luck finally returns, she runs into her old boss who offers her to work again. That night, she thinks about how her life was when she still had her luck and how Jake used it after giving it to him.

At the concert, things almost sabotage when one of the band members goes missing and then Ashley comes, kisses Jake and the drummer returns, and turns the concert into a big hit.

Ashley decides to avoid Jake as she doesn't want their lucks to swap again. She goes to the railway station where she finds Jake and he tries to convince her that she was all he wanted. They then kiss each other relentlessly causing their lucks to swap without stopping. Then, they both see Jake's little cousin, kiss her at the same time and she gets all the luck and wins a lottery. Later, they find a quarter deciding that they still have some luck left.

[edit] Box Office

Just My Luck opened with $5,692,285 opening weekend, May 14, 2006. In the US, it grossed $17,324,744 after showing for 12 weeks. To date, the film has grossed over $38 million worldwide.

[edit] Soundtrack

  1. I Wanna Hold You
  2. I've Got You
  3. Obviously
  4. Ultraviolet
  5. Five Colours In Her Hair (US version)
  6. Too Close for Comfort
  7. All About You
  8. That Girl
  9. Unsaid Things
  10. I'll Be OK
  11. Just My Luck
  12. Memory Lane

Though released as the film's soundtrack, the album contains only McFly songs and includes a selection of songs from McFly's first two UK albums that were not in the film.[citation needed]

[edit] Trivia

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  • Lindsay Lohan was nominated for a Razzie for Worst Actress for this film in 2007.
  • The cellphone Ashley uses is a T-Mobile Sidekick 2 (aka Hiptop).
  • Shooting began on January 13, 2005 and ended on April 17, 2005.
  • Lindsay Lohan received her biggest paycheck to date for this film, $7.5 million.
  • The premiere took place on May 9, 2006, which was also the date that McFly had their first USA album released.
  • Lindsay Lohan was in the hospital for a second time in less than a year (the first time was last year while filming Herbie: Fully Loaded) after working 17 hours.
  • The film's working title was Lady Luck.
  • When McFly are preparing to go on stage for the Hard Rock Cafe, Dougie Poynter is playing Always by Blink-182.
  • McFly held a concert at the London Hammersmith Apollo on May 19, 2005 which was used in the film.
  • The photo of Lindsay Lohan on the movie poster is actually a paparazzi photo that was later purchased by the studio.
  • Dozens of superstitions highlighted throughout the movie. Examples are:
    • Ashley is the lucky caller number seven on the radio quiz. Lucky seven is also the name of the lottery Ashley scratches.
    • Number 13: Jake's old apartment number.
    • Horseshoe nailed at Jake's apartment door.
    • A black cat in Dana's apartment. The cat also crossed through Ashley's path. Also as the name of the dance company labeled at the truck.
    • Reference of horoscope forecasts.
    • Ashley broke a mirror in Dana's apartment. An omen of seven years of bad luck.
    • A gypsy tarot card reader and some Tarot cards are featured: The Lovers, the Magician, and the wheel of Fortune.
    • Salt poured on the table: sign of bad luck.
    • Ashley opened an umbrella inside the building, which is also a sign of bad luck.
    • Rabbit's foot mentioned by Ashley.
    • During the closing credits a Maneki Neko is shown (along with a contrasting black cat).
  • The toy super-glued to Cady's cheek is a Mega Man X action figure.
  • Former co-stars Chris Carmack and Samaire Armstrong reunite in this movie. The two have previously starred in The O.C. as Luke Ward and Anna Stern, respectively.

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://et.tv.yahoo.com/micro/smg/10761/
  2. ^ 2006 Just My Luck - Movie reviews, trailers, clips and stills
  3. ^ DVD Verdict Review - Just My Luck

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