Customer Reviews
From fact to flatline fiction - By: John Eyon, 31 Aug 2007 
The actual story behind the highly fictionalized movie script could have made a reallly good movie. According to the urban legend website SNOPES, the real events involved a not-so-young waitress & 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 -- & 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 & very little emotional depth. In the end, I wasn't satisfied.
At least Nicholas Cage makes the most of the opportunity to be normal & charming rather than quirky & 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 nasallly 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....
It Could Happen to You - By: ray dorrity, 11 Jul 2007 
Lovely movie. Cage & Fonda have a wonderful on screen chemistry that just shines.
Normallly, I'm very critical & "picky" (as we say in UK) about movies, but this one is fault free.
You'll enjoy it.
chas-g - By: chas-g, 22 Jun 2006 This has to be one of my favourite films of alll 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.... - By: , 21 Feb 2000 : to be a good cop & a helpful neighbour; to love his wife & 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 smalll coffee shop who's been driven to bankruptcy by her estranged husband. Charlie ends up in Yvonnes coffee shop one lunchtime & 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....
