| All The Luck |
Steve and Terry are frustrated professionals and family men in their thirties struggling to make an honest living. Both have high-maintenance wives who have champagne tastes on beer budgets. Their lives take an exciting and hilarious turn when they win hundreds of millions in the lottery. The only thing standing between them and their millions is the six-hour drive to the lottery commission headquarters to claim their prize. But trying to get there, everything that can go wrong does. First, they lose the ticket while celebrating with their wives. After going through an agonizing all-night search, the ticket is found under Steve’s sleeping sheepdog. After a huge fight, the wives stay home while the men go to claim the prize. Almost right off the bat, a man tries to rob them and steal their car. Steve's car keeps breaking down, and they go broke making repairs. Terry tries to convince some of these stores that they won the lottery and can pay the costs later, but who'd believe that? Certainly not the state trooper who pulls them over for speeding and accuses them of trying to bribe him when they mention their win. After a humiliating search for drugs, the officer sternly sends them on their way. Tension builds as the trip continues. The arguing leads to rolling the car into a rushing river. They angrily work together to save themselves and the only thing they have left—the ticket. They walk to a tiny town and call their wives, enduring much abuse and taunting, and persuade them to wire money for bus tickets. They hitchhike because the bus station is 50 miles away. After a couple hours in the heat, a nineteen-year-old couple, in a junker picks them up. Yes, they are going that way, but they have a stop to make first--at the local lake, where they make out passionately in front of the uncomfortable men. They arrive at the station, but find that the next bus will not leave for almost 24 hours. Both men, who are usually well-dressed and conservative-looking, are unkempt and tattered. And angry. They turn on each other and are arrested and jailed by the same state trooper they dealt with earlier. Once again, they have to call their wives for money. They get out just in time to catch the bus, which they have to force to stop by running in front of it, nearly getting run over. On the bus, they endure such trials as a screaming baby that spits up on them and produces a horrible dirty diaper, an older woman who accuses them of eyeballing her purse and beats them with it, an intimidating gangster-looking dude who continually gives them threatening looks (and who they keep bumping into), and the babbling of an overly-friendly old man who is too open about his very personal and embarrassing surgeries. Finally, they arrive at the lottery commission with swollen faces, unkempt clothes, and terrible body odor. After a few suspenseful moments of searching for the ticket, Terry digs it out of his underwear in front of the horrified personnel. Now they learn that the commission will wire the winnings to their bank account, which will take three to five business days. Not trusting their wives, they agree to open their own account at a nearby bank in both their names. They learn they need $25 to open an account, and no one believes they won the lottery. They go back to the lottery commission and try to persuade them to front some of their winnings, refusing to take no for an answer. After nearly having their winnings forfeited, a businessman offers help in exchange for half their winnings. After talking him down to $250,000, the men accept. On the way to the hotel, Steve absent-mindedly walks in front of a fast-moving car, and Terry tries unsuccessfully to push him out of the way. They are hospitalized, and although they bond and have touching moments, they blame each other for the accident. In the end, they get their money and live happily ever after with their families, as neighbors, although they never do stop arguing about that trip.
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