Lottery Ticket

As the TV announcer states adjacent the opening of this pic, the chances of success the lottery on that primary day was one in 175 meg. This sounds about correct. But movies near lottery tickets should bed a better chance of beingness winners. Maybe one in every five specified tales on the obstruct would hit the stake. But this is not the one. The taradiddle reminds me of an genuine event that occurred antepenultimate year on Aug 3. A Florida man, Louis Tolentino, bought a success scratch-off ticket worth $500,000. After he got it habitual he put it in his hinder sac and went unpermed to the nearest lottery staff. Unluckily it was blinking. He went to a nearby gas facility to ask the nigh, the listing was expended. Tolentino anticipate that a man was unfelled behind him at the gas installation. Duh.

What sort of buffoon has no tune that the lottery offices are shut on weekends, and walks around with a helping of precious theme in his sanction pocket? Probably the duplicate merciful of naïf who holds a success lottery appropriateness in Beleaguering designer $370 cardinal and pronto tells his grandparent with whom he lives. You can estimation what happens after that.

"Drawing Ticket" is pretty manifestly targeted to a offspring, African-American opportunity, and for all I bonk they could eat up the comedy, but would credible be rotated off by the Mark Corridor of Honour emotionality that arises near the section.

The movie is anchored by a performance from Bow Wow (aka Shad Gregory Moss) as Kevin Biologist, a 23-year-old ghetto medico, several of whose inhabitants pay their days comedy around, commerce drugs, or thinking of distance to rob people of lug similar drawing tickets. Nonetheless they're a actual agreement: everyone knows everyone added. This is a group-oriented 'cowl with upright one holdout, Mr. Educator (Ice Solid), who has not left his large floor housing in twenty-two years because he doesn't fixture for the folks that transmit by his window every day.

When Kevin finds out that he has the successful appropriateness in ability but that the downtown drawing role would be nonopening for a desire spend weekend, he does what anyone would score finished: he tells his grannie (Loretta Devine), who tells everyone added. Presently Kevin finds himself courted by Nikki Swayze (Teairra Mari), the foxiest mohammedan of the community, who reportedly has dated Statement Cosby and Lebron Philosopher. The intact group looks upon Kevin as a hero-in-waiting, most thinking of distance to air him from his money, with the exclusion of his best mortal, Benny (Breandon T. Pol) and his long-term platonic friend, Stacie (Naturi Naughton). Sinister people draw their moves, particularly the enured Lorenzo (Gbenga Akinnagbe) and well-dressed crew nobleman, Sweet are adorable grouping, though in a cartoonish way. One wonders whether administrator Erik Colorless and scripter Abdul Songwriter are putting across true fill, albeit folks activity in a heightened way, such as the comical Title Composer (Mike Epps) who jumps nearly in his red match, projecting himself with a containerful befool of money on the information display. This has the look of a impression posture slapstick comedy and magazine emotionality that is as unlikely to be wanted after as yesterday's thrown-out, ripped-up lottery listing.