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Year:    2003
Studio:  Lions Gate Television
Feature: 4/5
DVD:     1/5

Lucky 7 is a charming romantic made for television movie. It starts Kimberly Williams-Paisley as Amy, a young hardworking lawyer trying to get to that seventh relationship and true love. This is all because when she was young her mom (perhaps as a sort of amusement) laid out her life on a timeline. And then that night mom died from a long illness. Ever since Amy has been living that timeline.

Amy meets the perfect man as number six: Daniel (Brad Rowe, who is quite the photogenic Brad Pitt-looking man). He's also a lawyer and charming and very taken with Amy. Her friends approve and her dad approves but he's still number six. Well actually not quite since he hasn't introduced Amy as his girlfriend yet.

Amy is aghast. But she comes up with a solution. The local bagel store manager, Peter (Patrick Dempsey), who is obviously attracted to Amy, asked her to accompany him to the wedding of his best friend. All platonic of course. Amy seizes on this opportunity to have Peter number six so that Daniel can be number seven.

Of course it gets complicated when the wedding weekend turns into this romantic affair. Amy finds out more about Peter, who she had been ignoring until now. And she feels a real attratction to the guy. But can Amy dump Peter for her number seven or will she stay on the path that her mother wrote out for her?
When I think about it the movie is a bit predictable and formulaic. But when I was watching the movie was quite engrossing. Kimberly Williams-Paisley is charming and the character is cute with some hangups. Patrick Dempsey has always been a heartthrob and Brad Rowe has a character that competes with Dempsey's. It was a good movie.

Extras

There is a 7-minute behind the scenes featurette.

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