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Jimmy Logan loses his construction job in the tunnels beneath the Charlotte Motor Speedway after failing to tell his boss about a leg injury from his football days. His ex-wife Bobbie Jo and her husband Moody plan to move his daughter Sadie to Lynchburg, where visiting her would be harder. At his brother Clyde's bar, a taunt about Clyde's missing arm from team owner Max Chilblain ends in a brawl, and Jimmy proposes robbing the Speedway, using what he knows about the pneumatic tubes that carry its cash. Clyde, their sister Mellie, jailed safe-cracker Joe Bang and Joe's brothers Sam and Fish join the plan, which calls for springing Joe from prison and getting him back behind bars the same day; Clyde lands a short sentence to help. When construction finishes early, the job moves to the Coca-Cola 600.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Logan Lucky (2017)
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- Behind the Candelabra (2013) was intended to be Soderbergh's final film as director; he was given the Logan Lucky script in the hope he could recommend someone suitable, but enjoyed reading it and took it on himself, calling it an “anti-glam version of an Ocean's movie”.
- Sources speculated that the credited screenwriter “Rebecca Blunt” was a pseudonym for Soderbergh's wife Jules Asner, for comedian John Henson, or for Soderbergh himself; The Playlist reported Asner was the sole screenwriter and used a pseudonym to avoid the perception that Soderbergh was directing his wife's script.
- Logan Lucky was the first film distributed by Fingerprint Releasing, which Soderbergh created to release films independently instead of through big studios, and the distributors spent $20 million on prints and advertising.
