Just My Luck

Infobox Film
name = Just My Luck


caption = "Just My Luck" official poster.
imdb_id = 0397078
starring = Lindsay Lohan
Chris Pine
Jaqueline Fleming
Chris Carmack
Bree Turner
director = Donald Petrie
producer =
distributor = 20th Century Fox
budget = $28 million
released = United States:
May 12, 2006
amg_id = 1:326741 |15

"Just My Luck" is a romantic comedy film starring Lindsay Lohan and Chris Pine released in the US on May 12, 2006. Lohan has described the film as "a little bit of an over-the-top comedy, but it's funny and it's cute and it's silly." [http://et.tv.yahoo.com/micro/smg/10761/] It is rated PG-13 in the US, and PG in the UK and Australia.

Lohan plays an ultra lucky Manhattan girl, Ashley. When asked about her character, Lohan said "She takes advantage of the fact that she has luck, and she does not recognize it and is not thankful, [then] everything just basically goes downhill for her."

Chris Pine plays the role of Jake, a music manager in the film, overseeing the pop band [ [http://www.celebritywonder.com/movie/2006_Just_My_Luck.html 2006 Just My Luck - Movie reviews, trailers, clips and stills ] ] [ [http://www.dvdverdict.com/reviews/justmyluck.php DVD Verdict Review - Just My Luck ] ] McFly (Danny Jones, Tom Fletcher, Dougie Poynter and Harry Judd), played by themselves.

Cast

*Lindsay Lohan - Ashley Albright
*Chris Pine - Jake Hardin
*Samaire Armstrong - Maggie
*Bree Turner - Dana
*Faizon Love - Damon Phillips
*Missi Pyle - Peggy Braden
*Makenzie Vega- Katy Applee
*Carlos Ponce - Antonio
*Tom Fletcher - Himself (McFly)
*Danny Jones - Himself (McFly)
*Harry Judd - Himself (McFly)
*Dougie Poynter - Himself (McFly)
*Tovah Feldshuh - Madame Z
*Jaqueline Fleming - Tiffany
*Chris Carmack - David Pennington
*Dane Rhodes - Mac
*Mikki Val - Tough Jailbird
*Antonino Camaj - Michael

ynopsis

The movie is about always lucky & popular Ashley Albright (Lindsay Lohan) who is never used to a normal life. Luck always keeps striking her side and on the other hand there is Jake Hardin (Chris Pine) who is the manager of a music band called McFly. He is exactly opposite to Ashley and always has bad luck with girls.

Ashley is asked by her boss to organize a party and even gives her a credit card to buy a dress of her choice. Jake wants to come to the party with the idea of meeting a very famous person who could publicize the McFly band in New York City.

A fortune teller at the place tells Ashley that there may be a change in her life because of fate and she may get bad luck but Ashley doesn't believe her. When Jake sees Ashley there he is stunned by her beauty and asks her for a dance and neither of them can see the other because they wear masks. When both of them kiss their lucks swap and Jake gets good luck and Ashley gets bad luck. She soon goes to jail because the guy that she set her boss up with turns out to be a prostitute. When she returns home she finds that her house had been affected by a flood & she had to call the emergency services department in New York City. All she gets from her house is some junk mail which she drops in the rubbish bin.

She goes to her friends' house, and they let her sleep there. At their place she breaks the mirror and then drops her contact lenses off at OPSM and wears it again. She kisses all the dancers at the party for her luck to come back not knowing that Jake wasn't a dancer and wasn't on the list. She leaves searching for a job that is good for her and has no credit cards as her boss had fired her. In the movie, Ashley was a Leo, when she asked one of her friends what her horoscope was.

She goes into a restaurant and Jake who had experienced bad times offers to help her. He gives her his old job and tries to introduce her to his little cousin but Ashley thinks it to be a woman who is dating Jake and wants to get away from Jake.

On a rainy day, Ashley is helpless and Jake takes a reluctant Ashley to his huge house where she tries to wash her clothes but puts much powder into the washing machine, (resulting to a room full of bubbles), and finally meets his cousin.

Later, Jake takes her to the place where McFly is practicing and she finds out that Jake is the one who has her luck and kisses him and then Jake gets his bad luck back. As Ashley's luck finally returns, she runs into her old boss who offers her to work again. That night, she thinks about how her life was when she still had her luck and how Jake used it after giving it to him.

At the concert, things almost sabotage when one of the band members, Harry Judd, goes missing and then Ashley comes, kisses Jake and Harry returns, and turns the concert into a big hit.

Ashley decides to dump Jake as she doesn't want their paths to cross again. She goes to the railway station where she finds Jake and he tries to convince her that she was all he wanted. They then kiss each other relentlessly causing their lucks to swap without stopping. Then, they both see Jake's little cousin, kiss her at the same time and she gets all the luck and wins a lottery. Later, they find a quarter deciding that they still have some luck left.

Box Office

"Just My Luck" opened with $5,692,285 opening weekend, May 14 2006. In the US, it grossed $17,324,744 after showing for 12 weeks. To date, the film has grossed over $38 million worldwide.

oundtrack

# "I Wanna Hold You"
# "I've Got You"
# "Obviously"
# "Ultraviolet"
# "Five Colours In Her Hair" (US version)
# "Too Close for Comfort"
# "All About You"
# "That Girl"
# "Unsaid Things"
# "I'll Be OK"
# "Just My Luck"
# "Memory Lane"

Though released as the film's soundtrack, the album contains only McFly songs and includes a selection of songs from McFly's first two UK albums that were not in the film. Fact|date=May 2008

References

External links

* [http://www.justmyluckmovie.com/ "Just My Luck", official website]
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* [http://www.nowpublic.com/node/6711 NowPublic: Lindsay Lohan's "Just My Luck" takes over the West Village] (including set photos and a video)