Oh Lucy! (2017 film)

Oh Lucy!
Theatrical release poster
Directed byAtsuko Hirayanagi
Screenplay by
Based onOh Lucy!
by Atsuko Hirayanagi
Produced byHan West
Yukie Kito
Jessica Elbaum
Atsuko Hirayanagi
Starring
CinematographyPaula Huidobro
Edited byKate Hickey
Music byErik Friedlander
Production
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Distributed by
Release dates
  • May 22, 2017 (2017-05-22) (Cannes)
  • March 2, 2018 (2018-03-02) (United States)
  • April 28, 2018 (2018-04-28) (Japan)
Running time
95 minutes
CountriesUnited States
Japan
Languages
  • English
  • Japanese
Box office$600,145[1]

Oh Lucy! is a 2017 comedy-drama film directed, produced, and co-written by Atsuko Hirayanagi, based on her 2014 short film of the same name. It follows a lonely chain-smoking office drudge living in Tokyo who develops a crush on her English teacher and decides to follow him to Los Angeles when he disappears. However, she ends up in the United States with her sister and her niece, as well as her English teacher.

The film premiered in the Critics' Week section of the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, and was released theatrically in the United States on March 2, 2018.[2][3]

  1. ^ "Oh Lucy!". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2018-06-28.
  2. ^ "Selection of the 56th Critics' Week". Semaine de la Critique. Retrieved 21 April 2017.
  3. ^ "56th Critics' Week Press Kit" (PDF). Semaine de la Critique. Retrieved 21 April 2017.