Lucky Break (1994 film)

Sophie (Gia Carides) is an Australian romance novelist, with a wild imagination. She is also a polio survivor who cannot walk without crutches and a leg brace and who is used to indulging her romantic and lustful fantasies (all of which are shown onscreen) only in her imagination and through her novels. After she breaks her leg and finds herself treated normally for the first time in her life, Sophie meets and begins a relationship with Eddie (Anthony LaPaglia). Similarly to one of Sophie's bodice-ripping page-turners, though, Eddie is about to marry his wealthy and shrewish fiancée, Gloria (Rebecca Gibney) and is also under police investigation for a recent jewelry robbery. ==Cast==

• Gia Carides as Sophie • Anthony LaPaglia as Edward 'Eddie' Murcer • Rebecca Gibney as Gloria Wrightman • Robyn Nevin as Anne-Marie LePine • Marshall Napier as George LePine • Nicholas Bell as Sophie's Doctor • Jacek Koman as Detective Yuri Borodinoff • Michael Veitch as Detective Sergeant Scott • Mary-Anne Fahey as Myra • Lynda Gibson as Carol • Terry Norris as Judge ==Reception==

The film received rave reviews but did not do well at the box office, opening tenth in Australia with a gross of $114,950 in its first week. It went on to gross just $197,540 in Australia. David Stratton of Variety wrote "Lucky Break adds a few new wrinkles to the venerable and resurgent formula of romantic comedy. Writer/director Ben Lewin comes up with some oddball ideas again, but his screenplay lacks the wit and zaniness that might have propelled this modest offering into wider distribution". ==References==