A TV weatherman and his girl rig the lottery in an unlucky mix of mirth and malice John Travolta nails every laugh he can as Russ Richards, a TV weather dork in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, circa 1988. As a local celeb, Russ commands his own booth at Denny's, boinks the station's lotto girl, Crystal (Lisa Kudrow), and raises enough cash to open his own snowmobile business. But when a balmy winter produces no snow, Russ faces financial ruin. Adam Resnick's bilious script, inspired by an actual…

Small town, stand-up citizens turn into small time crooks as palsy-walsy weatherman John Travolta and crafty Lotto girl Lisa Kudrow scheme to rig the state lottery but are met with a blizzard of bad luck.

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TV personality Russ Richards (Travolta) is such a splashy big fish in his small town that he has a personal booth and his own parking space at the local Denny's. But when a rash of unseasonably warm weather puts the kibitz on his snowmobile dealership, the living-beyond-his-means…