Sudden Money (1939)
SWEEPSTAKES MANIA....IT"S a Howl....IT'S a Riot...IT"S a Revolution!
Género : Drama, Comedia
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 6M
Director : Nick Grinde
Sinopsis
Promises of happier times dawn for the financially distressed Patterson family when father Sweeney and brother-in-law Archibald "Doc" Finney win a $150,000 grand prize in the sweepstake contest. With their windfall, each member of the family decides to pursue a dream.
A barber tries to find the winning lottery ticket he hid from his moralistic wife.
La historia se centra en un asesino en serie que gana la lotería y decide buscar a la que siempre ha sido el amor de su vida. (FILMAFFINITY)
A un taxista le tocan 150 millones de dólares en la lotería. Con ese dinero se enfrenta a una oscura multinacional que quiere provocar la quiebra de su cooperativa de taxis para quedarse con los terrenos que ocupa. La lucha llega a tal extremo, que el cielo y el infierno toman cartas en el asunto, y mandan a la tierra un ángel y una diablesa para tentar al aguerrido taxista.
Adaptación juvenil del relato de Robin Hood a la actualidad. Ahora Robin vive en Seattle, va al instituto y maneja el ordenador. Después de que sus padres ganaran un gran premio en la lotería, el joven Robin McAllister es enviado a la prestigiosa Locksley Hall. Allí experimenta cómo los hijos de los benefactores de la escuela, John Prince y sus asociados Warner y Gibson, son tratados como la realeza. Robin no se puede unir al club de tiro con arco y se mete en problemas cuando intenta aprender por su cuenta, ya que sus padres están completamente ocupados con su nuevo rancho de caballos.
Narra el viaje de realizan un padre alcohólico y su distante hijo desde Montana a Nebraska para recoger lo que cree que es un premio de un millón de dólares.
The Year That Trembled is a coming-of-age story set in 1970 in the shadow of Kent State that focuses on a group of young people facing the Vietnam Draft Lottery.
Antoine a Union representative works in a financially troubled factory. He's not the sharpest tool in the box but he has a big heart and when he and his wife win the jackpot of the national lottery. Antoine will invest his gain to try and safe the factory.
Vasilis is a poor conservative man who works in a company and tends to buy the lottery very often - but with no luck. His life will turn upside down when his younger sister turns out to be an anarchist and gets involved with a leftist rebellious man he already knows and hates. Eventually, in an ironic twist of faith, the two of them will earn millions and gain the exact lifestyle they used to fight against and Vasilis will lose his mind.
A young woman who works in the movie business buys a sweepstakes ticket that turns out to be a winner. Her stroke of luck changes her life around--and not necessarily for the better.
An efficient means of becoming rich in Belgrade? The Vasic Brothers lottery! This advertising film was shot in 1928.
The working class couple, Roger and Lisette, knows that it is impossible to live an honest life in a society of thieves. When they succeed in scoring the top result on the football pools without earning the top money, they have had enough.
La historia se centra en una mujer (Maribel Verdú, Blancanieves, El laberinto del fauno) a la que está a punto de cambiarle la suerte y la vida cuando le tocan 140 millones de euros en el Euromillón. Sin pensárselo dos veces toma la decisión de celebrar su 40 cumpleaños rodeada de sus siete mejores amigos en una apartada casa rural. Ellos acuden sin conocer la sorpresa que les espera allí cuando su amiga de toda la vida les anuncia que es la mujer más buscada por los medios de comunicación.
The film is set in a fictitious poverty-ridden village of Gowlipady, which is virtually ruled by the ruthless zamindari Bhandaravathi (Sukanya). Kashi (Nedumudi Venu) is a lottery salesman. He is the only literate person of his village. Once, a lottery sold by him happens to win the first prize of 5 Crore Indian Rupee. Greedy Kashi tries to get back the lottery ticket but doesn't know to whom he has sold the ticket to.
An 11-year-old boy steals money for bribes to remove his gay older brother from Thai military conscription rolls, unaware of the ramifications.
Against his wishes, Leon Errol is forced to buy a sweepstakes ticket
Les Tuche, a modest french family, change his life after winning a super lottery. Thanks to the money of his parents, the son, Donald (aka "coin-coin) goes to Los Angeles to improve his english. On the L.A. University, he meets Jennifer, daughter of a famous American financier.
The lives of three brothers who left their small village in Serbia to live in Sweden. The first one escaped from police, while the other two followed his path.
Ginger Rogers y Ronald Colman comparten un premio de un sorteo y se van de falsa luna de miel, con resultados perfectamente predecibles.
The Hunter family has hit the jackpot--scoring a winning 50 million dollar lottery ticket! But when the ticket is lost on the way to cashing it in, the Hunters face overwhelming obstacles in chasing down the ticket before it is stolen by some unsavory characters in this madcap action comedy.
A crew of young military-school cadets are enjoying their first weekend in Paris. Frank Harrington, a girl-shy cadet, wins the lottery which "They" have organized, an Frank wins the right to woo the star of the Folies Bergere, Gaby Aimee, with her garter serving as proof of conquest. Meanwhile Frank has found the one girl-of-his-heart, Patty, and this serves to complicate matters.
