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Lucky Numbers

2000 · 105 min · Director: Nora Ephron ★ IMDb 5.1 · 11,374 ratings

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Russ Richards is a TV weatherman and local celebrity on the verge of losing his shirt. Desperate to escape financial ruin, he schemes with Crystal the TV station's lotto ball girl to rig the state lottery drawing. The numbers come up right, but everything else goes wrong as the plan starts to unravel and the game turns rough.

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Lucky Numbers (2000) — Movie. Top emotional signals: Humor 30%, Anxiety 25%, Surprise 20%. Source: AI estimate. Shares describe emotional signal, not percentages of people. Your experience may differ. How we measure

  1. Humor30%
  2. Anger10%

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The strongest emotional signals are Humor, Anxiety, Surprise. Genres: Comedy, Crime. AI estimate.

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Consider this title if you are looking for Humor, Anxiety and Surprise. Its IMDb rating of 5.1/10 suggests a mixed audience reception; consider how well the emotional profile suits you. For these leading emotions, its Feel Score is 56/100.

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Emotional journey

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  • Tension
  • Humor
  • Curiosity

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Dominant emotion: Humor

Dominant emotion: Curiosity

Dominant emotion: Tension

Dominant emotion: Disturbing

Dominant emotion: Melancholy

Tension
Humor
Curiosity
Emotional journey Emotional intensity over the film’s runtime, from quieter to stronger on a fixed 0–1 scale. Hatched intervals have insufficient subtitle evidence. The table provides the values.
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Dominant emotion

Intensity dips around 3 %, then peaks around 78 %, then dips around 98 %.Ending hidden

Emotional journey
%Approximate minuteDominant emotionOverall intensityTensionHumorCuriosity
2.5 %≈ 3′Humor35 %11 %33 %19 %
7.5 %≈ 8′Humor38 %16 %35 %19 %
12.5 %≈ 13′Humor39 %22 %34 %25 %
17.5 %≈ 18′Curiosity42 %28 %36 %36 %
22.5 %≈ 24′Humor46 %31 %41 %43 %
27.5 %≈ 29′Humor50 %36 %43 %46 %
32.5 %≈ 34′Curiosity55 %45 %39 %47 %
37.5 %≈ 39′Tension63 %55 %30 %42 %
42.5 %≈ 45′Disturbing66 %57 %30 %39 %
47.5 %≈ 50′Curiosity61 %54 %32 %42 %
52.5 %≈ 55′Tension61 %56 %32 %40 %
57.5 %≈ 60′Tension63 %60 %31 %41 %
62.5 %≈ 66′Tension63 %60 %29 %44 %
67.5 %≈ 71′Tension62 %58 %30 %43 %
72.5 %≈ 76′Tension66 %62 %34 %38 %
77.5 %≈ 81′Tension70 %64 %38 %31 %
82.5 %≈ 87′Humor66 %57 %46 %31 %
87.5 %≈ 92′Tension63 %48 %52 %32 %
92.5 %≈ 97′Humor57 %28 %41 %21 %
97.5 %≈ 102′Melancholy48 %10 %18 %9 %
Man in a hole

Rags to riches: The emotional tone rises from negative to positive.

Riches to rags: The emotional tone falls from positive to negative.

Man in a hole: The tone falls, then recovers.

Icarus: The tone rises, then falls.

Cinderella: The tone rises, falls, then rises again.

Oedipus: The tone falls, rises, then falls again.

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Cast

Lisa Kudrow

Crystal

Ed O'Neill

Dick Simmons

DM
Daryl Mitchell

Daryl Mitchell

Detective Chambers

Richard Schiff

Jerry Green

Sam McMurray

Chief Troutman

Caroline Aaron

Sharpling

JF
John F. O'Donohue

Bobby

CM
Colin Mochrie

Jack

NL
Nick Loren

Father

JF
Jake Fritz

Sam

EL
Emmy Laybourne

Process Server

Ken Jenkins

Dan Schuff

AW
Andrea Walters

Heidi Zimmer

Details

Directed by
Nora Ephron
Written by
Adam Resnick
Type
Movies
Released
2000
Runtime
105 min
Country
France, United States of America
Genres
Comedy, Crime
Ratings
★ IMDb 5.1 · 11,374 ratings
Feels mostly
Humor
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