sweepstakes
10 movies and shows
Punch-Drunk Love
Fri, 11 Oct 2002
A socially awkward and volatile small business owner meets the love of his life after being threatened by a gang of scammers.
Nebraska
Sat, 21 Sep 2013
An aging, booze-addled father takes a trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim what he believes to be a million-dollar sweepstakes prize.
Sudden Money
Fri, 31 Mar 1939
Promises of happier times dawn for the financially distressed Patterson family when father Sweeney and brother-in-law Archibald "Doc" Finney win a $150,000 grand prize in the sweepstake contest. With their windfall, each member of the family decides to pursue a dream.
Sweepstake Annie
Tue, 29 Jan 1935
A young woman who works in the movie business buys a sweepstakes ticket that turns out to be a winner. Her stroke of luck changes her life around--and not necessarily for the better.
Lucky Partners
Fri, 02 Aug 1940
Two strangers split a sweepstake prize to go on a fake honeymoon with predictable results.
Call It Luck
Mon, 09 Jul 1934
A London taxicab driver cashes in on a big sweepstakes ticket and becomes the prey of a confidence-gang that sells him a nag of a cavalry horse on the claim that it is a brother to a current Derby winner.
The Gay Deception
Fri, 13 Sep 1935
A wide-eyed working girl wins a $5,000 sweepstakes and plunges into the lush life of New York City, where she meets a bellboy who is more than he seems.
Olive's $weep$take Ticket
Fri, 07 Mar 1941
Olive gets a phone call that she has won first prize in a sweepstake. After a frantic search, she locates her ticket, only to have it blow out the window. Help, Popeye!
Tough to Handle
Mon, 24 May 1937
A young reporter's grandfather wins a sweepstakes, but it turns out that his ticket is phony. The reporter finds out that the police are looking for the criminal ring responsible for the phony-sweepstakes racket, so he and his young brother set out to track down the gang responsible and expose them.