Russ Richards is a TV weatherman and local celebrity on the verge of losing his shirt. Desperate to escape financial ruin, he schemes with Crystal the TV station's lotto ball girl to rig the state lottery drawing. The numbers come up right, but everything else goes wrong as the plan starts to unravel and the game turns rough.
The characters are generally too repulsive even for our toleration, much less our affection, and the comedy is too mild to transcend that lack of involvement.
– Cody Clark,
Mr. Showbiz,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
The movie is as lifeless and unfunny as a corpse on a slab.
– Jonathan Foreman,
New York Post,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
Instead of becoming involved in the convoluted plot, we stand on the outside looking in, not laughing enough to make it all worthwhile.
– James Berardinelli,
ReelViews,
1 Jan 2000
rotten:
It's the easiest kind of comedy, comedy of derision. No joke about the rubes is left alone. And no obvious plot twist is, either.
– John Anderson,
Newsday,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
All of the main characters in this movie are despicable. This is why they are fun.