When they see how devastated Cheaver is, they fear his state of mind will put him at risk on the open road and decide to continue with him. Cheaver decides to visit his brother in Salt Lake City, but first drives Dunn and Poole to the airport so they can fly to Las Vegas.

Scott's scholarship will pay for only part of his tuition and he needs to pay the $20,000 balance immediately in order to secure his place at the university. Louis, Cheaver learns his wife Pat wants a divorce, and his son Scott has been accepted at Stanford University. Rather than face a potentially long wait before normal flight schedules resume, they rent a minivan and begin to drive westward.Īrriving home in St. Kennedy International Airport, the three strangers discover all outbound flights have been cancelled due to a lengthy blackout that ended just prior to their arrival. Dunn plans to visit the family of her boyfriend, a soldier who was killed in action after saving her life, and Poole wants to engage the services of a sex surrogate he hopes will cure the impotence he is experiencing as the result of a shrapnel injury before he reunites with his girlfriend. Poole each have a thirty-day leave, and both are headed to Las Vegas. Having completed his latest tour of duty, middle-aged SSG Fred Cheaver has retired from military service and is returning home to his wife and son in suburban St. The screenplay by Burger and Dirk Wittenborn focuses on three United States Army soldiers who find themselves drawn together by unforeseen circumstances. The Lucky Ones is a 2007 American comedy-drama directed by Neil Burger.

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