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    Lucky Break

    Lucky Break

    2001

    1:47:23

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    Lucky Break

    Genre

    Comedy
    Crime

    Plot

    Half-way through his 12-year prison sentence for an incompetent armed robbery, Jimmy Hands gets a lucky break: he's transferred to a prison from which he can probably escape. He convinces the governor to stage a musical in an old chapel next to the prison's outer wall. He rounds up volunteer actors and puts his escape plan into production. Two other barriers, besides the wall, confront him: the arrival of a nasty inmate, John Toombes, who insists on joining the escape, and Jimmy's feelings of attraction for Anabel, a social worker who agrees to appear in the play. Opening night approaches: is this Jimmy's breakout performance?

    Director

    Peter Cattaneo

    Writers

    Ronan Bennett, Stephen Fry,

    Stars

    James Nesbitt, Olivia Williams, Timothy Spall, Christopher Plummer, Bill Nighy,