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Cannes Market Musts: The Lucky Ones

Published on May 17, 2008

To be domestically distributed by Lionsgate, The Lucky Ones stars Rachel McAdams, tim Robbins and Michael Pena in the tale of three soldiers take an unexpected cross-country road trip to Las Vegas. A handsome know-it-all, seeking the confidence to face his wife, a middle aged father planning to win his son’s college tuition at the casinos and a beautiful young woman longing to reunite with her boyfriend’s family make the journey together, as three very different Americans find their way home.

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).