User:LynnWysong/Good Luck (1996 film)

Good Luck stars Gregory Hines and Vincent D'Onofrio as two physically disabled men that come together to challenge themselves out of their unsatisfactory lives. Hines plays a former dental student (Bern Lemley) who had to quit school just before finals due to a car accident that left him in a wheelchair. D'Onofrio play a former pro-football player (Ole Olezniak) that was blinded in a freak accident on the field. Before their accidents, Hines was a former tutor of D'Onofrio, and, after quitting his post-accident job as a denture technician, approaches D'Onofrio about teaming up to enter a white-water rafting race on Oregon's Rogue River.

The movie had it's world premiere at the 1996 Seattle Film Festival under the title "The Ox and the Eye", presumably because of D'Onofrio's brute strength and Hine's ability to see. It was also known as "Guys Like Us" and "Gimps" a term Hines uses in the movie to refer to his and D'Onofrios's characters. It was released under its present name in theaters on March 7, 1997.