Director: Dan Brown
A gas-station lottery ticket turns a quiet night into a standoff in Your Lucky Day, a tight, ensemble-driven crime thriller from director Dan Brown released in 2023.
What is Your Lucky Day about?
When a convenience-store clerk realizes a customer's winning ticket has vanished, the disagreement over who deserves the payout curdles fast into something far more dangerous. A police officer working an off-duty shift, a small-time criminal newly out of custody, and a handful of strangers passing through all get pulled into one locked storefront, and none of them are willing to walk away with nothing. As tempers rise and the group does the math on just how much is at stake, alliances shift by the minute and the line between victim and threat keeps moving. Told mostly in real time, the film draws its tension from proximity — everyone trapped together, everyone calculating what they think they're owed.
Cast & crew
The ensemble is led by Angus Cloud, Elliot Knight, Jessica Garza, Sterling Beaumon, Mousa Kraish, Spencer Garrett, Jason O'Mara, and Jason Wiles, with most of the film shot inside a single location so the pressure stays on the characters rather than the scenery.
Context & significance
Your Lucky Day sits alongside a run of pressure-cooker crime thrillers that use a single windfall — a ticket, a bag, a shipment — to strip a group of strangers down to their worst instincts. Shot largely within one convenience-store set, the film leans on close quarters and overlapping motives rather than chases or shootouts to build tension. It reached American theaters and on-demand audiences in 2023, part of a wider run of lean, dialogue-forward thrillers built around a single moral dilemma rather than a large budget.
Where & how to watch
Your Lucky Day streams on K-Time with a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, and the K-Time interface itself runs in Farsi, so browsing and setup feel native for Persian-speaking households. Reading this page requires no account, but watching the film calls for a free K-Time login.