Rent The Lucky One (2012)
3.3 of 5 from 92 ratings
1h 37min
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- Synopsis:
- After three tours of duty in Iraq, U.S. Marine Sergeant Logan Thibault (Zac Efron) goes in search of the unknown woman whose photo he believes was his good-luck charm during the war.
- Actors:
- Zac Efron, Taylor Schilling, Blythe Danner, Riley Thomas Stewart, Jay R. Ferguson, Adam LeFevre, Robert Hayes, Joe Chrest, Russell Durham Comegys, Sharon Conley, Ann Mckenzie, Kendal Tuttle, Cameron Banfield, Ritchie Montgomery, Courtney James Clark, Trey Burvant, Gavin Reyna, Matthew Michaud, Dustin Bergene, Ned Yousef
- Directors:
- Scott Hicks
- Producers:
- Denise di Novi, Kevin McCormick
- Writers:
- Will Fetters, Nicholas Sparks
- Studio:
- Warner
- Genres:
- Drama
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 27/08/2012
- Run Time:
- 101 minutes
- Languages:
- Castilian Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1, English Audio Description Dolby Digital 5.1, English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, French Dolby Digital 5.1, German Dolby Digital 5.1, Italian Dolby Digital 5.1, Russian Dolby Digital 5.1
- Subtitles:
- Castillian, Danish, Dutch, English, English Hard of Hearing, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Russian, Swedish
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.40:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Zac Efron Becomes A Marine: Zac shares his very personal journey of knowing why he had to accept this role and his emotional, physical and life-changing visit with the Marines at Camp Pendleton
- Watch The Sparks Fly - The Romantic World Of The Lucky One:
- Best-selling author Nicholas Sparks spends time with director Scott Hicks, Zac Efron and Taylor Schilling in New Orleans, as he discusses the personal inspirations behind this story and their dedication to getting it right
- Zac And Taylor's Amazing Chemistry: Zac Efron found Taylor Schilling engaging, intelligent and so much fun to be around. See how this duo pushed up the romance factor with their red-hot chemistry
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Reviews (1) of The Lucky One
Could have been better, could have been worse! - The Lucky One review by TB
A pretty standard chick-flick with all the required ingredients but never quite reached the heights of being anything fantastic or something that had you in floods of tears one minute and you’re heart leaping the next. A solid and good to watch movie; nothing more, nothing less.
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Critic review
The Lucky One review by Melissa Orcine - Cinema Paradiso
Nicholas Sparks knows romance… or his fans think he does. In Sparks’ latest book-to-film adaptation ‘The Lucky One’, it makes a romantic lead out of a US soldier yet again (the first being 2011’s ‘Dear John’) and like anyone, he too falls in love. Zac Efron plays Logan Thibault, an Iraq vet with three tour duties under his belt. On his last tour, his company was attacked and he was luckily saved albeit by a pretty young woman’s picture with a ‘Keep Safe’ inscription.
After this, Logan promises to thank his ‘savior’ in person and so he walks cross-country to Louisiana, where he meets the woman named Beth Green (Taylor Schilling), a young divorced mother who runs a dog kennel. Logan is hired on the spot to help out and from there Nicholas Sparks’ story does his magic.
When it comes to love stories it seems author Nicholas Sparks has it covered. ‘The Lucky One’ is the seventh film adaptation of a Sparks novel and from the looks of it, business is a-booming. Unfortunately, Sparks isn’t exactly a fan of originality. Even with the boy-meets-girl, boy-and-girl-fall-in-love, boy-and-girl-have-trouble-in-paradise, and boy-and-girl-have-their-happy-ending formula that Sparks has almost perfected, with ‘The Lucky One’ it just feels contrived. Somehow the formula is not working and it’s not entirely Sparks’ fault.
With screenplay by Will Fetters (‘Remember Me’) and directed by Scott Hicks (‘Shine’, ‘Snow Falling On Cedars’), ‘The Lucky One’ tries to make you swoon but ends up making you yawn. The love story in itself is inevitable and simple – what woman doesn’t fall in love with a buffed-up Zac Efron and his baby blues?! – that there are no risks to take. With the leading lady’s jackass of a sheriff-ex-husband, of course, the choice has been already made for you. It also doesn’t help that its lead star-crossed lovers – Efron and Schilling – have zero chemistry. In fact, they look more like brother and sister than fated to fall in love. Hence, ‘The Lucky One’ is such a romantic hard sell.
If you want a good Nicholas Sparks love story, better to re-watch ‘The Notebook’ instead.