Lucky Break

The first feature by director Peter Cattaneo since his award-winning British smash hit The Full Monty, Lucky Break is another comedy in the same mold, this time taking place in prison. Small-time crooks Jimmy (James Nesbitt) and Rudy (Lennie James), after years of no success, decide to pull a bank ...more

Peter Cattaneo can't exactly be accused of adding to the parade of Full Monty rip-offs. After all, he directed The Full Monty, so he's only stealing from himself. But that doesn't change the fact that his prison comedy, Lucky Break, once again gathers all the standard characters and contrivances of Monty's dogged army of successors, which have surfaced with machine-like regularity since its release. However, it should be noted that Cattaneo has a special talent for the "blokes in a pickle" ...more