Original Release Date: 9 May 2006
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Tagline:
- Everything changed in the wink of an eye.
- Good luck charm. Bad luck magnet.
- Everything can change with a kiss.
Filming Locations:
- Grand Central Station, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
- New York City, New York, USA
Company:
- New Regency Pictures
- Cheyenne Enterprises
- Regency Enterprises
Budget: $28 million
Gross revenue: $38,077,373
Plot Summary
The movie is about always lucky and popular Ashley Albright (Lindsay Lohan)
who has an extremely fortunate life and is always experiencing remarkable
strokes of luck. The audience is also introduced to 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 (the man he came to the party to see) 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 is, himself,
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 (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 (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
janitor/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 (her) 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 singer/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 vocalist/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.
Facts & Trivia
Goofs
Continuity: At one shot in train station, Ashley's eyes are clear while she
is talking to Jake. The camera angle changes, and Ashley's eyes are now irritated,
with tears flowing down her cheeks.
Boom mic visible: When Ashley first entered Jake's spanking new apartment,
admiring the interior, near the couch, you can see the mike above her quite
a few times.
Continuity: 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.
Crew or equipment visible: When Jake sprays champagne all over everyone
around him after the Hard Rock Show, a hose is visibly connected to the
champagne bottle.
Continuity: When Jake is getting toothpaste for Ashley's fingers, in one
shot we see the back of the tea bottle while in the next shot we see the
label.
Continuity: After the Mcfly Concert when they are all celebrating, Jake
calls for Danny to come over to him but Danny was previously shown right
beside him and they then cut to Dougie walking over to Jake.
Continuity: When Ashley leaves the bowling alley (after opening her umbrella
inside the building) and talks to Jake, who is standing outside his limo,
Jake is dry at one point, the shot switches to Ashley, back to Josh, who
is now wet, back to Ashley, then back to Jake, who is dry again.
Revealing mistakes: Backstage, when Damon Phillips reminds Jake Hardin
that Phillips had told him "not to play that song," the film is
backwards. Phillips shakes hands with his left hand and the stripes in his
tie go down and to the right instead of down and to the left.
Continuity: During the laundry room scene, the amount of water and suds
on Jake's shirt changes. While turning off the water it is obvious that
his sleeve is soaked but in the next shot when he begins talking his shirt
is practically dry. A few seconds later its spotted with water again.
Audio/visual unsynchronized: In the scene when Jake first goes to the
bowling alley to hear McFly rehearse, McFly and Jake talk about giving the
CD to Phillips. After Jake goes to clean the toilet McFly resume their song.
Danny's voice can be heard singing harmony with Tom, but he is nowhere near
his microphone in the shot.
Continuity: At the beginning of the movie when the jogger trips over Jake
in the park, the man taking pictures of the incident has the lens of the
camera closed.
Quotes
Jake Hardin: [sees Ashley put in one side of the light bulb]
And she should've turned the light off because now she's going to be...
Ashley Albright: [light sparks] AAAAAAAAAA!
Jake Hardin: ...electrocuted.
Jake Hardin: [catching Ashley as she falls backwards] Hi.
Ashley Albright: [gasps] Oh, my God... Hi.
Jake Hardin: You're firing me? You don't even pay me.
Harry Judd: Look, Jake, you're good, I mean, you did find
us. But it's just...
Jake Hardin: But? What's the but?
Tom Fletcher: But we just think it's time to go home
Jake Hardin: No! You can't go back home. We're this close
Tom Fletcher: We haven't had any lucky breaks here and...
Danny Jones: Yea, poor Doug misses his mum
McFly: Yea
Danny Jones: He does, he cries every night
Danny Jones: [Dougie punches Danny] Ah
Jake Hardin: One week. How's that? one week. You give me
one week, and if I can't make it happen for you guys by then, then I get
it. We're done. You can go back home. No hard feelings. One week.
Tom Fletcher: Ok. One week
Jake Hardin: One week
Tom Fletcher: One week
Jake Hardin: All right, get some rest guys
Danny Jones: Your mum's going to have to wait one more
week Doug! hahaa
Jake Hardin: One week.
Jake Hardin: [knocks wall] Okay, look, I know you guys
are nervous, that's fine just...
Dougie Poynter: Hold that thought...
[grabs bucket, throws up]
Tom Fletcher: Good idea
[grabs bin, throws up]
Danny Jones: wow
Jake Hardin: Air fresh... air freshener...
Jake Hardin: So, other than, uh, you know getting zapped,
how's the job working out?
Ashley Albright: Oh, I can't complain.
Jake Hardin: That's good.
Ashley Albright: No, I mean, I'm literally not allowed
to complain. I had to sign something.
Jake Hardin: [to Dana about Ashley] I was... just about
to ask this lovely lady to dance.
Damon Phillips: You saved my life, Spider-Man.
Jake Hardin: Ah, it was nothing, really.
Damon Phillips: No, it was something. There's gotta be
a way I can repay you, man.
Jake Hardin: [to himself] Is it me or did I just get
lucky?
Jake Hardin: This is my new apartment?
Tiffany: I know it's pretty amazing. Home theatre, satellite
TV. And at night, with the lights down low, let's just say this place is
pretty mind blowing.
Jake Hardin: Look, I know a job if you're looking for
one.
Ashley Albright: Really? What's the scam?
Jake Hardin: No scam.
Ashley Albright: Well, do you want me to join your religion
or something?
Jake Hardin: No, no religion stuff. It's just a job. You
know, a bad job. Crummy pay for crummy hours.
Ashley Albright: It still doesn't answer my question: What's
the scam?
Jake Hardin: Let's just say I know what it's like to be
S.O.L.
Ashley Albright: "S.O.L."?
Jake Hardin: "Shit out of luck".
Ashley Albright: What makes you think I'm S.O.L.? Just
because I spilt the salt back there?
Jake Hardin: [points to the "Wet Paint" sign
on the bench that Ashley is sitting on] Yeah.
Ashley Albright: [groans] Oh...
Jake Hardin: Look, where you are now.... I've been there.
Been there? I lived there. I was kinda the Mayor of there.
[laughs]
Jake Hardin: I'm Jake.
Ashley Albright: Ashley. Oh, God.
Jake Hardin: No, you got it.
Ashley Albright: Oh, my gosh.
Jake Hardin: Looks great on you.
Ashley Albright: Can anything else... I mean, to be honest,
I'm not really dressed for a job interview right now.
Jake Hardin: For this one, I think you'll be fine.
Ashley Albright: Okay.
Jake Hardin: Want to check it out?
Ashley Albright: Why are you so nice?
Jake Hardin: What? Look, I mean, shit out of luck. That's
my thing.
Jake Hardin: [as Ashley is changing a light bulb] See
that's not good. She should have gone up without the bulb and brought down
the old one because now she's gonna be juggling...
Jake Hardin: Can I give you a ride?
Ashley Albright: I only live twenty nine blocks from here.
Jake Hardin: Uh, at least take my umbrella.
Ashley Albright: I already have one.
Jake Hardin: You know, I got a washer-dryer, uh... microwave
popcorn, satellite T.V.
Ashley Albright: No, I... I really shouldn't.
Jake Hardin: Look, I don't do this for just anybody, but
I'll even throw in some hot chocolate with those little tiny marshmallows.
Ashley Albright: I love the little marshmallows.
Jake Hardin: How about you toss the lighting rod and get
in.
Ashley Albright: Ooh...
[sighs]
Ashley Albright: Thank you.
Jake Hardin: We've sold out the Hard Rock!
Jake Hardin: I've been the luckiest guy in the world.
Ashley Albright: [Jake goes to kiss Ashley again] No,
no, no. no. I have to go now.
Jake Hardin: Uh... Now?
[repeated line]
Jake Hardin: Taxi!
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