The Lottery

The Lottery

100 mins | Drama, TV Movie | Sept. 29, 1996

On his deathbed in the hospital, Jason's father asks that his ashes be spread over the top of his wife's grave. Jason, who came to the city with his father at a young age, remembers little of the town or his mother, but he undertakes the charge. It is an idyllic place, but gradually snips of memory return, until he remembers the significance of the fact that most of the tombstones in the town cemetery, including his mothers, bear the same day and month, one death each year. Caught up in the memory of the lottery he saw as a child, and the one he is trapped in today, escape is difficult and retribution is... Written by Bruce Cameron

The Lottery

100 mins | Drama, TV Movie | Sept. 29, 1996

The Lottery
On his deathbed in the hospital, Jason's father asks that his ashes be spread over the top of his wife's grave. Jason, who came to the city with his father at a young age, remembers little of the town or his mother, but he undertakes the charge. It is an idyllic place, but gradually snips of memory return, until he remembers the significance of the fact that most of the tombstones in the town cemetery, including his mothers, bear the same day and month, one death each year. Caught up in the memory of the lottery he saw as a child, and the one he is trapped in today, escape is difficult and retribution is... Written by Bruce Cameron
IMDb rating 6.0
Producers
Original title The Lottery
Directors Daniel Sackheim
Writers Anthony Spinner, Shirley Jackson

Cast

Dan Cortese

as Jason Smith

Veronica Cartwright

as Maggie Dunbar

Keri Russell

as Felice Dunbar

Stephen Root

as Graham Dunbar

William Daniels

as Reverend Hutchinson

William Morgan Sheppard

as Mayor Warner

Salome Jens

as Faith Lloyd

M. Emmet Walsh

as Chief Davis

Sean Murray

as Henry Watkins

Jon Huffman

as Dr. Wasserman