Synopsis
A Marine travels to Louisiana after serving three tours in Iraq and searches for the unknown woman he believes was his good luck charm during the war.
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Cast
- Zac EfronLogan Thibault
- Taylor SchillingBeth Clayton
- Blythe DannerNana
- Jay R. FergusonKeith Clayton
- Riley Thomas StewartBen Clayton
- Joe ChrestDeputy Moore
- Jillian BathersonAmanda
- Courtney J. ClarkLogans`s Sister
- Sharon ConleyPrincipal Miller
- Russell Durham ComegysRoger Lyle
Recommendations
- 63
ReelViews
The Lucky One delivers what's expected from it: a heartfelt romantic melodrama with attractive actors in the lead roles; gauzy, moody photography; a saccharine score; and all the heat that a PG-13 production can muster. - 63
Chicago Sun-Times
The Lucky One is at its heart a romance novel, elevated however by Nicholas Sparks' persuasive storytelling. - 50
Slant Magazine
At this point, Sparksian romances unfold via their own preordained formula, and measures of their merits largely hinge on how well each can bend the cookie-cutter. - 50
Entertainment Weekly
The Lucky One doesn't have the schlock rapture of "The Notebook" (the one Sparks adaptation that has really worked). The trouble with the movie isn't that it's too girly-swoony; it's that it tries to achieve emotion through glowy sunsets and a paint-by-numbers script. - 50
The A.V. Club
As a pretty, low-stakes bayou romance The Lucky One works well enough. When asked to carry any kind of dramatic weight, however, it collapses. - 40
Time Out
Question: What's the only thing worse than doing an unfaithful film adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks novel? Answer: Doing a completely faithful one. - 40
Variety
When a novel gives you soapsuds and washboard abs to work with, what other choice does a director have but to provide the most aesthetically pleasing actors, scenery and sets to disguise the thinness of the underlying material. - 30
The Hollywood Reporter
Embalming the simple and simplistic yarn in an amber glow that is all but suffocating and banishing from it any traces of humor and spontaneity, director Scott Hicks serves up this treacly tale with absolutely no trace of self-consciousness about the material's cliches or simple-mindedness.
