On a miserable, rainy night, Erik Palladino walks home to prepare for poker night with his buddies. He finds a wallet. There's no cash, but some personal items, and a lottery ticket. When he gets home, he calls the wallet's owner, and then checks the lottery ticket. It has won the $6,000,000 jackpot. His friends show up, and then the ticket's owner, James Earl Jones.
It's an interestingset-up and a good cast, with Ryan Reynolds, Matthew Lillard, and Robert Forster among the people who come into the apartment. The problem is that nine of them are particularly interestingly written characters. The actors try to fill them out, but it doesn't really work. Add in an essentially one-set story, and writer-director Jeff Probst has done a mediocre off-Broadway show.
It's an interestingset-up and a good cast, with Ryan Reynolds, Matthew Lillard, and Robert Forster among the people who come into the apartment. The problem is that nine of them are particularly interestingly written characters. The actors try to fill them out, but it doesn't really work. Add in an essentially one-set story, and writer-director Jeff Probst has done a mediocre off-Broadway show.