When three very different U.S. soldiers
find themselves on an unplanned road trip across America,
they form a deep bond that may be the closest thing any of
them has to real family. A humorous and timely drama about
coming home, The Lucky Ones stars Rachel McAdams (The
Notebook, Wedding Crashers), Tim Robbins (Mystic River, The
Shawshank Redemption) and Michael Pena (Crash, World Trade
Center), and is directed by Neil Burger (The Illusionist)
from a screenplay by Burger and Dirk Wittenborn.
T.K. Poole (Michael Pena), Colee Dunn (Rachel McAdams) and
Fred Cheever (Tim Robbins) arrive in New York from Germany
only to find their connecting flights canceled due to a
power outage. Anxious to get to their respective
destinations, they agree to share a rented minivan to
suburban St. Louis where Cheever is to reunite with his wife
and teenage son. From there, the other two plan to fly to
Las Vegas where the macho T.K. wants to make an important
stop before seeing his fiancee and the tough yet naive Colee
plans to pay a visit to a fallen fellow-soldier's family.
But when Cheever's homecoming turns out to be a far cry from
what he anticipated, the trio's one-day drive expands into
an impromptu cross-country marathon. Along the way, they
experience a string of surprising adventures ranging from
the hilarious to the heartbreaking. As their interstate
journey takes them from a barroom brawl to a high society
dance to a bizarre Sunday morning church service, T.K.,
Colee and Cheever discover that home is not quite what they
remembered and the unlikely companionship they've found in
one another might be what matters most of all.
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