It Could Happen To You (1994)

Editor's Note When a New York police officer offers half of a lottery ticket as a tip for a waitress in a diner, the gratuity ends up being worth over $2 million in this wacky romantic comedy.

	Isaac Hayes
	Seymour Cassel
	Bridget Fonda
	Nicolas Cage
	Rosie Perez
	Andrew Bergman - Director

When he digs into his pocket to get a tip for coffee shop waitress Yvonne Biasi, New York policeman Charlie Lang discovers that he's out of cash. So, as compensation, he promises that, if lady luck is on his side and a recently purchased lottery ticket wins, he'll give her half the money. Lo and behold, his ticket's that special one, and Lang splits the $4 million with Biasi -- to the chagrin of his materialistic wife.| But Charlie also discovers in the process that there's more to life than money... and that some of the best things in life are free.

"I made a promise and I kept it. Most people would have done the same." ---- Charlie Lang (Nicolas Cage)

"Do you love me? Then stiff her." ---- Muriel Lang (Rosie Perez)

"If only rich people have kids we wouldn't have public schools." ---- Charlie Lang (Nicolas Cage)

New York Times
"...[Cage and Fonda] keep it sailing....[A] sweetly amusing movie..." 07/29/1994 p.C10

Entertainment Weekly
"...Engagingly preposterous....It is a pleasure to be persuaded to suspend disbelief..." -- Rating: B 01/27/1995 p.59

Los Angeles Times
"...Written and directed with an embracing cheer. It's blissfully uncynical..." 07/29/1994 p.F1

Chicago Sun-Times
"...The story is not so much about romance as about goodheartedness, which is a rarer quality, and not so selfish. And Cage has a certain gentleness that brings out nice soft smiles on Fonda's face..." 07/29/1994 p.37