Lucky Star is a Canadian drama film, written and directed by Gillian McKercher and released in 2024.
[1] The film stars Terry Chen as Lucky, a Chinese Canadian dad raising his family in suburban Calgary, Alberta, who gets drawn into gambling as he attempts to recover money he lost after being scammed.
[2] The cast also includes Olivia Cheng, Conni Miu, Austyn Van de Kamp, John Dylan Louie, Andrew Phung, CJ Collard, Summer Ly, Isra Abdelrahim, Mary Armstrong, Carlo Cuizon, Dustin Nelson and Sharon Umeh.
According to McKercher, the film was inspired in part by an unconfirmed family legend that her great-grandfather had been a wealthy landlord who owned an entire block of his city's Chinatown, but gambled it away in a card game.
[5] It had originally also been announced for the 2024 Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival,[6] but was subsequently withdrawn from that festival by its distributor so that the screening in Calgary, McKercher's hometown, would be the world premiere.