Scott Hicks

'The Lucky One': Zac Efron romance unlucky with most critics

2012-04-20 16:37:57

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Will there be a place for Miramax in Disney's new movie script?

2009-09-24 16:32:47

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Miramax's Battsek is absent as ax swings

2009-10-24 04:32:49

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At last, Hollywood serves up some well-done chefs

2007-08-01 00:00:00

Something fresh happens onscreen in "No Reservations," the newest in that newly burgeoning genre, American foodie cinema, and it's not the sea bass poached in a court bouillon with saut�ed batonnet of carrots and zucchini (though that fish with vegetables...

VOD Spotlight: Zac Efron toughens up for “The Lucky One”

2012-08-28 04:32:40

'The Lucky One'

2012-08-27 13:38:00

The romantic-tragic approach of novelist Nicholas Sparks has fueled such stories as "The Notebook" and "Dear John," and it services Zac Efron reasonably well in this drama about a Marine who believes his life was saved during Iraq combat by his locating a...

Film review: 'The Lucky One' never gets the fire started

2012-04-20 15:05:00

Hollywood keeps making adaptations of Nicholas Sparks novels, even though they've never really burned up the box office. Maybe “The Lucky One” will be, well, the lucky one, but it's hard to imagine why. Sparks films have become their own...

'The Lucky One' review: Aspires only to be average

2012-04-19 00:00:00

** (out of four) Don’t just assume “The Lucky One” is some schmaltzy, ordinary Nicholas Sparks (“The Notebook”) adaptation in which a dreamy guy (Zac Efron), who says stuff like “You should be kissed every day, every...

En cartelera: Bully y The Lucky One, acoso escolar y historia de guerra y amor

2012-04-18 14:31:00

Bully ***1/4 La violencia escolar cautiva la atenci�n de Bully, en�rgica e inteligente cr�nica que retrata el infierno que viven los ni�os abusados por sus compa�eros de clase. Bully arranca revelando una verdad alarmante: anualmente m�s de 13...

The Lucky One

2012-04-20 12:07:00

I’m not sure who has a worse track record with bad movies – Tyler Perry or Nicholas Sparks. Perhaps the edge should go to Perry, since he’s involved in every aspect of his crappy films. And Sparks did give us The Notebook, which wasn&...

'The Lucky One': Nicholas Sparks extends the bland ✭✭

2012-04-19 00:00:00

You don't need a message in a bottle to get the word out: Author Nicholas Sparks knows his audience. Conservative moviegoers (along with plenty of centrists and liberals) take to the latest Sparks adaptation, gratefully. They know they're not going to get...

Actress Taylor Schilling On New Movie 'The Lucky One'

2012-04-19 00:00:00

Based on Nicholas Sparks' bestseller The Lucky One, Zac Efron ("17 Again," "Charlie St. Cloud") stars alongside Taylor Schilling (TV's "Mercy") and Blythe Danner ("Meet the Parents" franchise) in this romantic drama directed by Academy Award�-nominated...

Director Scott Hicks arrives.

2012-04-16 00:00:00

An adaptation of Nicholas Sparks' book "The Lucky One" tells the story of a Marine trying to find a mystery woman who he believes was his good-luck charm during the war in Iraq.

2012-01-10 16:29:22

A widower struggles to raise his two sons alone. With Clive Owen. Directed by Scott Hicks. Screenplay by Allan Cubitt. Miramax Films Sept. 25

2009-09-01 15:34:48