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Synopsis
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 job, where they are both captured and incarcerated. Jimmy is then transferred to Long Rudford, run by the steely security chief Perry (Ron Cook). Jimmy again runs into Rudy (whom he left to take the initial rap) and shares a cell with Cliff (Timothy Spall), a portly man prone to depression. The prison warden, Mortimer (Christopher Plummer), is heavily into Broadway musicals and offers Jimmy an opportunity to stage his long-unproduced work, "Nelson: The Musical," which Jimmy will use as a means to bust out of the prison. After working hard on the new tuner, the boys try to find a way both to do the show and to continue their arduously planned escape. The Sixth Sense's Olivia Williams co-stars as a guard Jimmy falls for, and British comic actors Bill Nighy and Frank Harper appear in supporting roles. ~ Jason Clark, All Movie Guide

Cast

Ron Cook Perry
James Nesbitt Jimmy
Bill Nighy Roger
Christopher Plummer Graham Mortimer
Timothy Spall Cliff
Frank Harper John Toombes
Celia Imrie Amy
Peter Wight Officer George Barratt
Olivia Williams Annabel
Lennie James Rudy
Raymond Waring Darren
Julian Barratt Paul

Production Crew

Anne Dudley Composer (Music Score)
Peter Cattaneo Director
Barnaby Thompson Producer
Peter Cattaneo Producer
Ronan Bennett Screenwriter
Stephen Fry Songwriter
Nick Adams Supervising Sound Editor
Year: 2002
Runtime: 107
Country: UK
MPAA Rating: PG13
for brief strong language and some sexual references
Category: Feature

Genre
Comedy

Sound
stereo

Produced by
Film Four International
Fragile Films
Lucky Break Productions

Release
April 19, 2002 (USA - Limited)
by Paramount