It Could Happen to You is a 1994 American romantic comedy-drama film starring Nicolas Cage and Bridget Fonda.

Charlie and Yvonne become instant celebrities; Muriel sees this as an opportunity to become a spokesperson for her favorite beauty products.

Charlie and Yvonne are invited to a gathering, on a chartered boat, for the lottery winners and members of high society.

The media reports on Yvonne and Charlie treating numerous subway passengers to a free ride, and on them taking a sandlot baseball team to meet the New York Yankees.

While ruminating about their future at Yvonne's closed diner, the new couple provide a homeless man with soup at the Charlie Lang Table.

As Charlie and Yvonne are preparing to move out of NYC, they receive mail from hundreds of New Yorkers who read Angel's expose.

The mail consists of encouraging letters, along with "tips for the cop and the waitress" totaling about $600,000, which pays off all the couple's debts.

The diner where Yvonne works in the film was constructed in a parking lot at the corner of N. Moore St. and West Broadway in the Tribeca neighborhood of Manhattan.

In 1984, Phyllis Penzo was a waitress at a pizzeria commonly frequented by Yonkers, New York, police officers.

In March of that year, Officer Robert Cunningham, a regular patron and longtime friend of Penzo, suggested that the two split a lottery ticket, each of them choosing three of the six numbers, in lieu of his leaving her a tip.

As a result, neither Penzo nor Cunningham were required to authorize the film, nor were they entitled to collect royalties from its proceeds.