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It Could Happen to You [1994] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
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Editorial
Amazon.co.uk Review
Inspired by an actual incident, this unassuming, wonderfully good-natured romantic comedy tells the story of a New York City street cop named Charlie (Nicolas Cage) who makes a promise to a coffee-shop waitress named Yvonne (Bridget Fonda) that will change both their lives. One day after coffee, Charlie is embarrassed to discover he doesn't have money for a tip, so he tells Yvonne that he'll share half of his winnings if the lottery ticket he's holding comes up a winner. Sure enough, he wins the jackpot--a whopping US$4 million payoff--and Charlie's wife, Muriel (Rosie Perez), goes ballistic when he tells her about his deal with Yvonne. From this point, It Could Happen to You follows Charlie's dilemma as he is forced to decide the proper course of action, and director Andrew Bergman smoothly incorporates a gentle love story into this amusing crisis of conscience. Fonda and Cage have an easygoing chemistry that adds a pleasant touch to the movie's fairy-tale plot, and It Could Happen to You's kindhearted sentiment is never so thick that it becomes sticky-sweet or artificial. As feel-good comedies go, this one's a class act. --Jeff Shannon
From fact to flatline fiction
Review date: 2007-08-30 Rating: 6 out of 10
The actual story behind the highly fictionalized movie script could have made a really good movie. According to the urban legend website SNOPES, the real events involved a not-so-young waitress and a not-so-young police detective who together select the winning numbers to a $6 million jackpot. There was no hint of romance between the two. But that would be too open-ended for the cookie cutter mentalities behind this movie. They must have went into a conference room -- or a lunch room -- or a diner -- and derived this formulaic romance between two unhappily married people.
Their result was this plot bringing together a Prince Charming, a Cinderella, a the Wicked Witch of New York. But they forget to include a nice dramatic flow of events. I just didn't experience any peaks and very little emotional depth. In the end, I wasn't satisfied.
At least Nicholas Cage makes the most of the opportunity to be normal and charming rather than quirky and charming (one of his first such efforts). He gives the movie whatever depth it attains. Pretty Bridge Fonda gives her usual quiet, unexciting performance. They're responsible for most of the positive rating I give this movie.
Rosie Perez, unfortunately, overwhelms the entire proceedings with nasally witchiness. And that's not the memory I want to take away from a movie.
So, I'm looking forward to the remake based on my own soon-to-be lottery success... Oooh, Briii-dget....
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Reviews
It Could Happen to You
Review date: 2007-07-11 Rating: 10 out of 10
Lovely movie. Cage and Fonda have a wonderful on screen chemistry that just shines.
Normally, I'm very critical and "picky" (as we say in UK) about movies, but this one is fault free.
You'll enjoy it.
chas-g
Review date: 2006-06-22 Rating: 10 out of 10
This has to be one of my favourite films of all time. If you like Nicolas Cage, Bridget Fonda & romantic films you'll love this. Buy it, you can watch again & again.
All Charlie wants out of life are a few simple things....
Review date: 2000-02-21 Rating: 6 out of 10
: to be a good cop and a helpful neighbour; to love his wife and start a family. Unfortunately his wife (Rosie Perez) is a scheming money-grabbing, social-climbing superbitch, who is starting to regret marrying Charlie (Nicolas Cage). Then there's Yvonne Biasi (Bridget Fonda), a good hearted waitress at a small coffee shop who's been driven to bankruptcy by her estranged husband. Charlie ends up in Yvonnes coffee shop one lunchtime and on realizing he doesn't have enough cash for a tip he promises to share with her any winnings from the lottery ticket he has just bought. When Charlie wins $4million things get very interesting indeed....
Product Details/Specifications
Actor(s):
Isaac Hayes
Wendell Pierce
Bridget Fonda
Rosie Perez
Nicolas Cage
Creators:
Nicolas Cage (Primary Contributor)
Bridget Fonda (Primary Contributor)
Director(s):
Recording label: Columbia TriStar
Manufacturer: Columbia TriStar
EAN: 9780767810852
Binding: DVD
ISBN: 0767810856
Number of items: 1
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Colour, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC,
Release date: 1998-08-25
Universal product code (UPC): 043396728196
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
DVD layers: 1
DVD sides: 2
Picture format: Anamorphic WidescreenPan & Scan
Region code: 1
Running time: 101 minutes
Theatrical release date: 1994-07-29
Language: English (Original Language)
Language: Spanish (Original Language)
Language: English (Subtitled)
Language: Spanish (Subtitled)
Language: French (Subtitled)
Language: French (Dubbed)