Pure Luck (1991) on Netflix
PG19911h 36mComedyCrimeMystery
When Valerie Highsmith goes missing in Mexico, every effort to find her fails. A psychologist convinces her father to send Eugene Proctor, an accountant with terrible luck, to look for her.
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- Netflix1.8/5
- IMDb5.8/108,302 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes15%
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Plot summary
Valerie Highsmith, the accident-prone daughter of a rich businessman, lands in Puerto Vallarta and phones her father to say she has arrived. She falls from a balcony onto a canvas below, then an encounter with street thieves knocks her out and costs her the memory of who she is. A local criminal, Frank Grimes, takes her away from her hotel. The psychologist Monosoff, aware that Valerie's luck is dreadful, talks her father into sending Eugene Proctor, an accountant on his staff whose luck is just as dreadful, to search for her. The investigator Raymond Campanella is assigned to work alongside him, and the pair meet one mishap after another on the way to Mexico.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Pure Luck (1991)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The cartoon series Hey Arnold! had a character, Eugene Horowitz, who is also a jinx and was likely based on Eugene Proctor from Pure Luck, and The Simpsons introduced a character named Frank Grimes in "Homer's Enemy" who suffers a similar fate at the hands of Homer Simpson.
- Pure Luck is a remake of the popular French comedy La Chèvre, and it was the only American theatrical film that Australian director Nadia Tass would direct in her career.
- In 2024, more than three decades after it came out, Pure Luck was voted no. 2 in IGN's "Top 10 Buddy Cop Movies of All Time".
- Around five to seven years later, director Nadia Tass reported that she was still receiving residuals from Pure Luck because of its success in America.
