Highland Park is a 2013 American dramedy film directed by Andrew Meieran and starring Danny Glover, Parker Posey and Billy Burke.

[1] Based in Detroit, it is about a high school faculty lottery pool that hopes the lucky numbers they've played for ten years will finally pay off, after discovering budget cuts have eliminated their jobs.

Set in the economically depressed Detroit suburb of Highland Park, the city’s infrastructure is crumbling and the mayor is destructive rather than constructive.

Six downtrodden friends connected through the local school (teachers, admin and maintenance) play the lottery with the same numbers every week for ten years, hoping to win big and change their lives.

Ex-homecoming queen Shirley Paine, the Mayor of Highland Park, arrives to Principal Howard’s office to personally give him the cuts in the high school.

A desperate Jess, now unemployed bus driver, tries to knock over a convenience store with a toy gun, but the clerk recognises him, turning him away.