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Lotto Land

1996, Movie, NR, 87 mins

Lotto Land: Review

Kitchen-sink realism, Brooklyn-style, from first-time writer-director John Rubino. This sincere, generally upbeat urban melodrama revolves around young Hank Stokes (Larry Gilliard, Jr.), a working stiff who blows his savings on the lottery, hoping for a $27 million ticket out of the ghetto. Meanwhile, his father (bluesman Wendell Holmes) takes halting steps toward intimacy with a longtime neighbor (Suzanne Costallos), who just happens to be the adoptive mother of Hank's ambi... read more leave a comment