Local celebrity TV weatherman Russ Richards (John Travolta) is on the verge of losing his shirt. He’s losing money hand over fist in an unsuccessful snowmobile dealership he owns in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Desperate to avert financial ruin, Russ, together with Crystal Latroy (Lisa Kudrow), the TV station’s lotto ball girl, gets mixed up in a lottery scheme. The numbers come up right, but everything else goes wrong as their plan starts to unravel and the game turns rough. “Lucky Numbers” is a fictional comedy inspired by a real-life scam to win the Pennsylvania State Lottery.