Lottery Ticket

Comedy
3 stars
Not the full-out comedy I expected, but a decent flick about a level headed kid (Bow Wow) who wins the lottery and wants to do the right thing. Unfortunately for him, he has to wait until a holiday weekend is over before he can cash it in, and several people in his poor community are conniving and scheming to either steal the ticket or somehow benefit from it. I am grateful that the characters were closer to real people, rather than caricatures like you see in Tyler Perry-type films. Co-stars are Ice Cube as an old recluse, Loretta Devine as Bow Wow’s mom, and Brandon T. Jackson and Naturi Naughton as Wow’s best friends. Keith David had a smaller role as the don of the local mafia, with Terry Crews (love him!) as one of his thugs. Cute film with a nice message.