The Joy of Positivity pick of the day is Nora Ephron and Adam Resnick's Warped 2000 Dark Comedy Lucky Numbers
Nora Ephron’s 2000 dark comedy Lucky Numbers proved spectacularly unlucky with audiences. It received a dreaded F rating on Cinemascore because it is not the kind of movie you’re supposed to like.
In a pop culture realm unhealthily obsessed with likability, Lucky Numbers is flagrantly unlikable, deliberately loathsome.
Lucky Numbers stars John Travolta as Russ Richards, a small-town Midwestern weatherman who loves being a big fish in a small pond.
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