100-word review: IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU (1994)
>> It could, but the odds are something like 1 in 45 million
A fairytale based on a true story that just sort of lays there. It Could Happen to You makes winning the lottery and falling in love boring enough for The Hallmark Channel. Nicolas Cage plays a New York cop who splits his $4 million lottery ticket with waitress Bridget Fonda to the disgust of wife Rosie Perez. But Cage and Fonda have no chemistry and Perez is reduced to a cartoon. Isaac Hayes plays Angel, a narrator figure in the beginning (“Once upon a time in New York …”) who turns out to be reporter. His presence his wasted.