The Lucky One

“This formula is fraught with pitfalls, but the characters and the actors redeem it with a surprising emotional impact.”

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times · 75

“This is more than the story of soldiers grappling with stress and doubt as they reenter the "normal" flow of domestic life. It's about strangers bonding, about friendship and discovery, about the comedy and tragedy of the human experience.”

Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer · 75

“This movie has its own emotional sorcery. In a raw, humorous way, it grasps how hope and desperation spur magical thinking and, sometimes, real magic.”

Michael Sragow, Baltimore Sun · 75

“Because the lead actors work so well together, adding depth and levels of vulnerability to fairly underwritten roles, the emotional consequences of the sense of displacement these "lucky" characters -- lucky to be alive, lucky to have met one another -- must deal with always ring true.”

Laura Kern, The New York Times · 70

“I'd hate to guess whether most Americans know, any more than these fictional partygoers, what soldiers go through in Iraq. But if the market for movies about the war is any indication, they don't want to.”