Just My Luck 倒霉爱神

Just My Luck(倒霉爱神)is a 2006 romantic comedy film directed by Donald Petrie and written by I. Marlene King and Amy B. Harris. Two people discover just how true the old adage "lucky in life, unlucky in love" can be in this romantic comedy. After six years in development hell, the film was released in the United States on May 12, 2006. The film was released under Twentieth Century Fox and Regency Pictures.

Directed by: Donald Petrie

Produced by: Arnon Milchan Arnold Rifkin Donald Petrie

Written by: I. Marlene King Amy B. Harris

Music by: Teddy Castellucci

Cinematography: Dean Semler

Editing by: Debra Neil-Fisher

Studio: Regency Enterprises New Regency Cheyenne Enterprises

Distributed by: 20th Century Fox

Release date: May 12, 2006

Country: United States

Genre: Comedy Fantasy Romance

Lindsay Lohan as Ashley Albright

Chris Pine as Jake Hardin

Samaire Armstrong as Maggie

Faizon Love as Damon Phillips

Missi Pyle as Peggy Braden

Makenzie Vega as Katy Applee

Jaqueline Fleming as Tiffany

Chris Carmack as David Pennington

Bree Turner as Dana

Carlos Ponce as Antonio

Mcfly as themselves

Tom Fletcher as Tom Fletcher (McFly)

Danny Jones as Danny Jones (McFly)

Harry Judd as Harry Judd (McFly)

Dougie Poynter as Dougie Poynter (McFly)

Tovah Feldshuh as Madame Z

Dane Rhodes as Mac

Mikki Val as Tough Jailbird

Antonino Camaj as Michael

Ashley Albright (Lindsay Lohan) is always an lucky and popular girl who has an extremely fortunate life and is always experiencing remarkable strokes of luck. However, Jake Hardin (Chris Pine), who is followed by bad luck wherever he goes. He manages a small music group called McFly (a real UK band).

Persistent in her efforts to hold onto a client, Ashley manages to sell Damon Phillips (Faizon Love) on the idea of a masquerade party. When Ashley's boss, Peggy, learns of the plan, she is, to Ashley's surprise, impressed with the idea, leaving her with the task of organizing the party independently. Jake, hearing of the party and of the number of possible sponsors who could be there, hatches a plan to attend, in order to meet a very famous man (Phillips) who could publicise his band. He poses as a dancer for the masquerade party and gains entry. During the party, Ashley is confronted by a fortune teller who warns her of an upcoming change in her life. The fortune teller tells her she will be soon be struck by bad luck. Ashley doesn't believe her. As Jake wanders around the party, he is strucked by Ashley's beauty and asks her to join him in a dance, during which they kiss. Neither can see the other's face, as they are both wearing masks. During the kiss, their luck is switched. Jake gets Ashley's good luck and Ashley gets Jake's normally rotten luck.

Soon after, Jake spots Phillips and asks him to help publicise the band. As they are talking, a cab accidentally heads straight for Phillips. Jake pushes him out of the way but he himself is hit by the cab. In a stroke of good luck, he is unharmed. By way of saying thank you, Phillips, who is in charge of a major record company, signs up McFly. Meanwhile, Ashley's bad luck kicks in and she goes to jail because the guy she set her boss up with for the party turns out to be a prostitute. When she returns home she finds that her house has been flooded, causing a mold infestation is in her walls. She is left with but a mere box of her former possessions. She goes to stay with a friend. At her friend's place she breaks a mirror and drops her contact lens in the cat litter box. Upon finding it, she places it back in her eye, causing a major eye infection. Desperate to regain her luck, Ashley revisits the fortune teller, who explains that, in order for her life to return to what it was before, she must again kiss the person she kissed at the party. Ashley begins hunting down all the dancers from the company who had supplied the dancers at the party. But of course, as Jake had only pretended to be a dancer, he is not on the list. Ashley begins to give up hope, thinking her bad luck has gotten the better of her.

When Ashley gets out of prison because of another stroke of bad luck, she tries to get some food from a cafe but is rejected because she doesn't have enough money. As she leaves, she creates mass chaos and makes a mad dash out of the cafe with the help of Jake, who offers Ashley his previous job as a food delivery person at the bowling alley. Ashley, desperate for a job, accepts immediately. Though she is accident prone at the beginning, she gradually begins to avoid some of her bad luck.

One rainy day, Jake takes the helpless Ashley to his huge house, where she tries to wash her clothes. She puts too much soap in the washing machine, resulting in a room full of bubbles. Jake comes in to see what all the comotion is about, and they both laugh at the comical situation. Just as they are about to kiss, they are interrupted by Jake's young cousin, Katy. Later, Jake takes Ashley to the place where McFly is practicing. She discovers that Jake is the one who has stolen her luck. Seizing her chance, she kisses him, whereupon he gets his bad luck back. Ashley's luck has returned. She runs into her old boss, who offers her a high position, to be appointed at a meeting that night. That night, she thinks hard about her life and about how Jake had put his good fortune to use. She decides that her life was more enjoyable without luck. She chooses not to attend the meeting, and instead goes to Jake's first concert for McFly, during which things aren't running smoothly.

At the concert, things are taking a wrong turn. As bass player Dougie Poynter tunes his guitar strings, one of them snaps and hits guitar player Danny Jones in the eye. He immediately calls for an eye pack. Jake asks the band members if they'll be all right, whereupon guitar player Tom Fletcher begins vomiting into a bin. Meanwhile, drummer Harry Judd, has gone mysteriously missing. Ashley kisses Jake. His luck changes. Harry reappears on stage. The rest of the band members, confused but relieved, join him onstage, and the concert is a massive success.

Ashley decides to end contact with Jake, as she doesn't want their luck to be switched again. She believes Jake put the good luck to better use than she ever did. She goes to the railway station, where Jake finds her and tries to convince her that she was all he wanted since the party. They then kiss each other relentlessly, causing their luck to swap so quickly that they no longer know who has the good luck and who has the bad. When they see Jake's little cousin Katy and both of them kiss her at the same time, she gets all the luck and wins a scratch card lottery of twenty-five dollars. Later, when they find a quarter, they decide that they still have some luck left. But only seconds later, they are drenched by a broken water line.

In 2000. James Greer, Jonathan Bernstein and I. Marlene King wrote a treatment for the film, entitled Lucky. Bruce Willis was originally going to help produce and help distribute the film. Twentieth Century Fox agreed to distribute the film to theaters. James Greer and Jonathan Bernstein later rejected to help flesh out the treatment into a full script and Amy B. Harris was attatched to co-write the script. In the original story, the main character, Connie Albright, loses her luck after kissing unlucky Robert Hardin at the production of a music video starring rock band Aerosmith. Once Hardin had been considered lucky, his next door neighbor Katy's grandmother dies. He tries to get full custody afterward. The characters' names were later changed and the subplot with the custody of Katy was later dropped from the storyline. The title was changed to Lady Luck and then finally to Just My Luck.

The shots of the McFly concert in Times Square were actually shot in England for McFly's home-fan base. While changing lighting and camera angles, McFly would play their other songs for the fans before playing the ones for the movie while filming. For filming the concert scenes in England, fans were told when booking the tickets that they could be in the filming for Just My Luck. This was so that they wouldn't bring any merchandise or banners, to coincide with the idea that McFly were an undiscovered band.

The album "Just My Luck" is made up entirely of songs from McFly's first two UK albums, Room on the 3rd Floor and Wonderland. It also includes brand new track Just My Luck, which was recorded especially for the movie. Though released as the film's soundtrack, a selection of songs were not in the film.

Ashley Albright: This isn't mine.
Dana: Who's is it?
Ashley Albright: Sarah Jessica Parker's.
Dana: What?
Ashley Albright: I'm not kidding.
Maggie: I didn't know Sarah Jessica Parker lived in your building.
Dana: Oh, my God. And look, it's Dolce.
Ashley Albright: Oh, my gosh. I can return it tomorrow.
Dana: Let me look. Ah, yes. Your size. What are the odds?
Maggie: Don't be jealous.
Ashley Albright: You know, this might actually look cute on me.
Maggie: You can totally wear it tonight.
Dana: I'm gonna need some chocolate now.
Maggie: I'm gonna need some milk.
Ashley Albright: I'm gonna try on the dress.

When the girls are getting ready for the McFly concert at the hard rock café, the mirror that Ashley broke with the blow dryer is not broken anymore, but when Ashley gets closer to it the mirror is broken again but in the wrong spot.

At the Hard Rock Cafe, when Harry goes missing and Jake tells the boys to go look for him and they start running around yelling "Harry", Danny is holding the wrong eye from where Dougie hit him with the bass string.

When Ashley gets her luck back near the end of the movie and she goes home, she opens her coat and shows Dana and Maggie her dress, and then closes it. But in the next shot when it shows it from behind her, she closes it again.

If you're really lucky, you'll find a way to avoid JUST MY LUCK, in which Lindsay Lohan plays a parody of the once promising Lindsay Lohan. The movie has aptly been called her last teen comedy, which it is, even if her character is a career woman past her teen years. The script and the acting in this bad slapstick have all of the maturity and finesse of any of the generic teen movies.

All of this could be forgiven if Lohan could ever manage to make her character the least bit likable, which she doesn't. An actress who was once so charming in THE PARENT TRAP and in FREAKY FRIDAY, Lohan manages to lose all of her appeal in this film. She speeds through her lines like she doesn't care about them. She just wants to sprint through her dialog so she can get finished and get back to her trailer. It should have been easy for her to shine in the picture since her co-star, the ever forgettable Chris Pine from THE PRINCESS DIARIES 2: ROYAL ENGAGEMENT, and her supporting cast are as bland as can be. All she would have had to do is to show off just a bit of her talent, and she would have shined like a flashlight in a dark theater. She is capable of it but never seems interested in trying, as if someone forced her to do this movie against her will.

I was surprised but glad that they didn't delve two much deeper into the workings of this "change of luck" thing. You knew the kiss was the key and as far as the actual workings of it all, that's all that mattered. The more important part is what happens to the two fortunate/unfortunate souls sucked in by this crazy bit of magic.

When the movie wound down to a close I thought of about a dozen different ways it could have ended. The one they chose is the one I love the best. Two people who would love to have good luck all the time - having experienced the worse first hand - but would rather the other be happy instead.

When the movie wound down to a close I thought of about a dozen different ways it could have ended. The one they chose is the one I love the best. Two people who would love to have good luck all the time - having experienced the worse first hand - but would rather the other be happy instead.

Razzie Awards
Worst Actress of the Decade, Lindsay Lohan

Teen Choice Awards
Choice Actress, Lindsay Lohan

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