... Eric Bana, who has mischievously dodged typecasting after the ever-so-serious Munich. Not content with having ruined the Hulk, Bana gets his frown on again, this time teaming up with esteemed director ...Photograph: PR... Curtis Hanson (right), who convinced a number of professional poker players to do cameos. He even signed up Jennifer Harman (left), considered by many to be the world's best female poker player. There's also ...Photograph: PR... Doyle Brunson, twice world champion and a professional player for more than 50 years, and ... Photograph: PR
... John Hennigan (in the stripy shirt), another high roller whose total live tournament winnings currently exceed $2.8m. All of which makes Lucky You sound like a poker geek's dream. And indeed the great majority of screen time is spent ...Photograph: PR... at the table, watching the various competitors trading blows. But this is Hollywood, and there always has to be some sort of love interest, in this case in the form of ...Photograph: PR... Billie (Drew Barrymore), an aspiring singer who has moved to Las Vegas in an attempt to kickstart her career. There she falls for Cheever, who's charismatic and talented, but well, a bit messed up, mainly because of his father ...Photograph: PR... that's LC Cheever, played by Robert Duvall, who abandoned Huck's mother when the boy was just a wee thing, and is himself a poker legend. Both father and son will compete in the main event of the 2003 World Series of Poker. As if that weren't complicated enough, Huck's ex ... Photograph: PR... is Suzanne (Debra Messing), aka her out of Will and Grace, who is also Billie's sister. Lucky You, however, as previously mentioned, seems more concerned with the poker than relationships between its many characters, who also include, somewhat randomly ...Photograph: PR... Robert Downey Jr, as conman Telephone Jack. He answers advice lines on his many mobile phones at a deserted bar and appears only once, in a scene with ... Photograph: PR
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