Aubrey Dollar, Cybill Shepherd, Gavin J. Behrman

Three converging story lines involving bootleggers, a serial killer and drug dealers are followed. A former drug dealer (Snipes) tries to go straight, but comes across a stash of stolen drugs. Meanwhi...( read more  read more... )le, a middle-aged suburban housewife (Shephard) hides a sadistic and vicious streak.

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R, 101 min.

Directed by: Mario Van Peebles

Release Date: October 17, 2006

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  • April 16, 2007
    Hard Luck is all over the place and didn?t seem to have any direction, It had too many problems and just wasn?t worth the 101 minutes.
  • November 5, 2009
    Hard Luck (2008)

    This direct-to-video movie story line is all over the map. It follows ex-con, Lucky's (Wesley Snipes) story of getting out of prison and trying to go straight despite all of the bad luck that follows him from Katrina-flooded New Orleans to depressed New York Ci...( read more)ty. Lucky is still trying to go straight.

    Through no fault of his own, he gets involved in one of his shadier friends, Sol's (Noah Fleiss) birthday party. Sol is trying to sell some guns and wanted Lucky close by for street cred. Unfortunately the job was a sting with some crooked cops, and Lucky gets caught up in it and goes on the run with the stolen money and a latina stripper, Angela (Jacquelyn Quinones).

    According to Lucky himself, he killed more black people than the KKK, back when he was a criminal. His long-time neighborhood rival, and now police Captain Davis (Mario Van Peebles) is out to get Lucky and bring him in. Everybody else seems to be out to get Lucky too.

    The movie also deals with a couple of sadistic serial killers, Cass (Cybill Shepherd) and Chang (James Hiroyuki Liao), who like to video tape themselves torturing their victims.

    Somehow they all come together in this mess to make some kind of sense. I love Wesley Snipes and he keeps the movie pretty watch-able despite the writing and editing. No doubt this is to help pay for his back taxes. Cybill Shepherd has a surprisingly juicy roll in this movie.
  • August 11, 2009
    was good good to see cybill shepherd in a movie and she played a good part
  • June 7, 2009
    this movie has the strangest sideline plot i've seen. it doesn't even make sense until the last 10 minutes. because of that it seemed a strange and messy film. The main story does really have much of a story as it goes. Mr Snipes does the best he can with a poor film wish annoys ...( read more)me because he can act but gets stuck with these dodgy stories.
  • June 7, 2009
    wow umn just seen this movie 4 the 1st time n think that this is a good movie 2 watch....its got a good cast of actors/actressess throughout this movie...i think that aubrey dollar, cybill shepard, gavin j behrman, luis guzman, luis guz?n, kevin chapman, mario van peebles, noah f...( read more)leiss, wesley snipes, tony hua play good roles/parts throughout this movie...i think that the director of this action/adventure/ crime/thriller movie had done a good job of directing this movie because you never know what 2 expect throughout this movie its a good movie 2 watch n its got a good cast throughout this movie
  • April 25, 2009
    No thanks - Not interested
  • January 25, 2009
    la verdad pensé que seria pero pero pase un rato entretenido. lo mejorCybill Shepherd haciendo de señora ama de casa asesina
  • March 24, 2008
    This movie had potential, but fell through the cracks. To bad.
  • March 17, 2008
    Shallow entertainment.
  • September 12, 2007
    Recommended by; Jared.

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