Directed by Prueksa Amaruji, the Netflix Thai comedy film The Lost Lotteries has premiered globally on the streaming service.
About a week ago, there was a single winner for a record-shattering $2.04 billion lottery prize in the US, an odds-defying stroke of good fortune for the ticket holder (who might feel slightly less fortunate when they are forced to reveal their identity in order to claim the prize money).
The jackpot is smaller in the Thai film The Lost Lotteries, the latest from director Prueksa Amaruji (Bikeman, Miss Happy), but the five main characters still want as much of the 30 million baht (roughly USD $840,000) as they can get. So each of them buys a lottery ticket. And all of them win. But there’s a problem: Henchman for a mafia boss take the tickets as collateral for an unpaid loan (without realizing how much they are actually worth).
The would-be winners — down-on-their-luck strangers who live from hand to mouth — have to get them back. But how? One amongst them concocts a plan, a pretty bad one at that, but with no other choice, the five band together to steal back their winning lottery tickets from the mafia gang headquartered in a firecracker factory. What could possible go wrong?
The Lost Lotteries, a Netflix Film, premiered globally today, Wednesday, November 16, and is now streaming exclusively on Netflix.
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