Lottery Ticket
Lottery Ticket starring Bow Wow is a comedy that follows a young dude who wins a huge sum from lottery but will have to handle his eager family and friends while the lottery store returns from holiday.
12 July 1959, New York City, New York, USA
25 June 1969, Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA
3 February 1947, Greenwood, Mississippi, USA
7 March 1984, Detroit, Michigan, USA
4 June 1956, Harlem, New York City, New York, USA
18 July 1979, Chicago, Illinois, USA
7 April 1965, Newark, New Jersey, USA
2 December 1987, Detroit, Michigan, USA
23 May 1981, Kingsbury, London, England, UK
19 March 1951, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
30 July 1968, Flint, Michigan, USA
March 29, 2011
Lottery Ticket is generally harmless; too slight to hold-up the more serious themes it is thinking about, but too well-meaning to be out-and-out insulting.August 24, 2010
There are enough stereotypes in here to get Dr. Laura frothing at the mouth -- and enough menace to merit co-writing credit for the Hughes brothers.August 20, 2010
A jumble of comedy and drama with a sprinkling of After School Special messaging and some head-scratchingly bad choices.November 21, 2010
The cast is terrific and the basic premise is pleasing, but a wavering tone robs Lottery Ticket of some of its power.January 06, 2014
it has about 40 minutes of story and needs to be padded out to its 99-minute running timeDecember 20, 2010
No doubt the characters are stereotypes, but the performances are handled with a knowing wink and a great deal of fun.August 20, 2010
It all comes off a bit like an extended episode of "Everybody Hates Chris" with really bad language.January 05, 2013
A tasteless and obnoxious "comedy," "Lottery Ticket" is easily one of the year's worst films.October 15, 2010
If given the opportunity to see Lottery Ticket again (once was enough!), I'd break down... and buy some lottery tickets instead.August 20, 2010
...a film that's largely wealthy in incoherence, raising a smile one minute and a cringe the next, until it finally devolves into a 'who-cares' cliché-fest.November 16, 2010
...shallow, clichéd, sentimental, and derivative; but the cast makes up for the plot's deficiencies with an amiable charm that's hard to resist.August 20, 2010
Let's call it four out of six numbers, with no power bonus. Some payoff, but don't quit your job.