The heartbreak felt by an individual when the love of their life begins to fall for someone else was portrayed perfectly through the comedy film titled Good Luck Chuck starring Dane Cook and Jessica Alba in the lead, released in 2007.
The screenplay for Good Luck Chuck was done by Josh Stolberg. The film did average at the box office with an initial budget being $25 M, and the overall collection of the movie came out to be $59.9 M. Good Luck Chuck got made under the direction of Mark Helfrich, his debut as a director after being a film editor for a long time.
Produced by Mike Karz, the story focuses on Dr. Chuck, a dentist responsible for helping girls find their true love after having sex with him once. The twist comes when a woman named Cam enters his life, and he tries to become the love of his life.
Anthony B. Richmond did a brilliant job with the cinematography of Good Luck Chuck. It featured Dane Cook playing the role of Dr. Charlie Logan, the film’s protagonist, Jessica Alba playing the role of Cam Wexler, the female protagonist of the film, and Dan Fogler playing the role of Dr. Stuart Klamminsky.
Karz Entertainment produced the film, while Lionsgate distributed the film. Good Luck Chuck had a run time of 99 minutes that left viewers bored with its shortage of laughs and an undertone of mean-spiritedness. Some viewers felt the film had gross humor to it and shopworn slapstick.
The film received an undeniable amount of overwhelming dislike from the audience. Some of the viewers felt the film’s storyline was bad, with jokes that felt brain-damaged and abusive language.
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Good Luck Chuck- Premise
Good Luck Chuck starts with a young Charlie refusing the sexual advances from a goth girl during a game of Spin the Bottle in the 1980s, who then puts a hex on Charlie, stating any woman who has been with him once will find her true love in the next person.
The film then returns to the present time, where Charlie has become a successful dentist running his clinic opposite his best friend’s plastic surgery consultation clinic. After Charlie fails to admit his love for Carol during sex, his present girlfriend, she decides to end things between them.
Chuck attends a wedding with his best-friend Stu to Katie’s wedding, one of Charlie’s ex. Charlie gains interest in the females at his table after Katie raises a toast thanking him for being her lucky charm. Charlie becomes infatuated with the clumsy yet attractive friendly Cam, a worker at a marine mammal park.
The very next day of the wedding, Chuck’s office gets filled with women wanting to find their true love by sleeping with him. At this moment, Charlie discovers Carol is engaged to his love. Charlie is called by Cam after she gets injured in an accident chipping her teeth during his date.
After fixing Cam’s teeth, Charles asks her out instead of her making a payment in cash. Cam declined Charles’s proposal, as she doesn’t feel she is emotionally ready for a relationship. Once Charles returns home, he finds Reba, his receptionist making a move on him to find her true love.
Charlie is encouraged by his best friend to indulge in guilt-free sex, but Charles decline as he is still infatuated with Cam. Chuck and Cam begin to grow closer, and they start falling in love, but Charles gets cold feet after Stu reminds him of every woman he has slept with ending up married.
In order to check the curse, Charlie and Stu decide to experiment with Eleanor, a fat and ugly individual, and after Charles has sex with her, he instructs Stu to ask her out. Charles continues to be in a long-distance relationship with Cam by pretending to be sick. Chuck has sex with Cam after Stu informs him of Eleanor not falling in love with her.
Chuck arranges a meeting between Howard and Cam as she admires the work of the former author. Stu informs Charlie about Cam going on a trip to Antarctica with Howard. Charlie rushes to catch Cam at the airport and pleads with her not to go. Cam informs Charlie about her going to Antarctica with Howard and his wife, and she will return on Wednesday.
Charlie courts Cam in a way penguins do by presenting her with a pebble, and the couple separate before sharing a passionate kiss. Meanwhile, Anisha removes a pin from the Vodo doll from her childhood keepsake box. The film ends with Cam and Charlie looking in the distance.
Good Luck Chuck Filming Locations
The filming of Good Luck Chuck started in late September of 2005 to mid-November of 2006, with Vancouver as the prime location.
1. Vancouver, British Colombia
The beautiful major city located in the lower mainland region of Western Canada, in British Colombia known for its linguistic and cultural diversity used by the production crew of Good Luck Chuck to film some of the important parts of the film. The Spanish Banks Dogs Beach in Colombia was used by the crew to film the beach sex scenes.
401 Burrard Street was used by the crew to film the parts with the Seltaeb building in the movie. The Cecil Green Park House in Colombia was used to film the wedding scene in the movie. The Aja Tan Studios was used to film the scene with Chuck having sex in a loft by the production crew.
Iona Beach was used for the filming of the part with the date in the car. Brix & Mortar was used by the crew to film the part with Charlie going on a date with Eleanor.
The Frederic Wood Theatre was used to film the scene with the Aqua World Staff Lot. The Vancouver International Airport was used by the crew to film the part with Charlie pleading with Cam to stay back.
2. Edmonton, Alberta
Edmonton is a beautiful city in Northern America chosen by the crew as it is the house for penguins, which was the prime bird choice for the filming. The scenes with Cam’s brother working with penguins were filmed at Canada’s Festival City.
