Wolff rating: MOSTLY HARMLESS
Plot summary: Mountain flier wins the lottery, but is attacked by greedy co-workers on his way to redeem it.
Biased, pithy comments: Marshall and Doherty are probably the youngest-looking parents of a junior-high kid that anyone has ever tried to cast, but that shouldn't be a surprise since both have cut their teeth playing teens when both were far past their formative years. Beyond that, this is an adventure of misadventures; besides being pursued by a hard-bitten Natasha (she even has a ludicrous fur hat) and her sullen sidekick, the building this family sleeps in burns down, they fall into the river, and Marshall gets lost in the snow, all for no discernable plot or thematic reason. Stuff just goes wrong, and they deal with it logically and the story continues. Where snowbound hunted-by-greedy-bad-guys movies can be good actioners (i.e. ``Cliffhanger''), this one is a shaggy dog tale with no punchline. There's also a good 20 minutes of detailing this capped-toothed couple's dreary life before they win the lottery. Hey! Save that exposition for *after* the show gets going! Yeesh.
Other Notes: Made-for-USA movie.
How many times I have seen it: x1
Starring: Shannen Doherty, James Marshall.