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Pure Luck

1991 · 96 min

A breezy, silly caper where escalating mishaps and slapstick disasters keep things playful and easy to watch.

Directed by
Nadia Tass
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Starring
Martin Short, Danny Glover, Harry Shearer
Tagline
Somewhere on the Mexican Riviera, a beautiful, rich heiress has gone missing. Only one man can find her. Unfortunately, they sent two.
Overview
The daughter of a wealthy businessman has disappeared in Mexico, and all the efforts to find her have been unsuccessful. A psychologist, knowing that the girl has an ultra bad luck, persuades her father to send to Mexico one of his employees, an accountant with super bad luck, to find her. Perhaps he will be lucky, and his bad luck could help to find the unlucky girl.

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Directed by
Nadia Tass
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Starring
Martin Short, Danny Glover, Harry Shearer
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Tone
  • lightstrength 3 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • friendship
  • identity
  • survival
  • love
  • fate
Places
  • road trip
  • countryside
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action4
Horror1
Humour8
Realism5
Romance3
Tension3
Darkness2
Complexity2
Emotional weight3

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Genres
comedy, drama
Directed by
Nadia Tass
Written by
Timothy Harris, Herschel Weingrod
Starring
Martin Short, Danny Glover, Harry Shearer, Sheila Kelley, Sam Wanamaker, Scott Wilson, Sharlene Martin, Jorge Russek
Cinematography
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Runtime
96 min
Country
United States of America, Mexico
Languages
English

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