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Jun 17, 2022 · “Jerry & Marge Go Large” starts as a breezy character study about a couple who basically fall into an unexpected news story late in life. Loosely based on a true story, it’s tells of a married pair who exploited a fascinating flaw in a national lottery and didn’t use their winnings to buy a McMansion or travel the world—they ...
67% Tomatometer 58 Reviews 78% Audience Score 250+ Ratings JERRY & MARGE GO LARGE is inspired by the remarkable true story of retiree Jerry Selbee, who discovers a mathematical loophole...
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- David Frankel
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- Bryan Cranston
Jun 16, 2022 · While the movie sustains levity, its lack of subtlety — and a lack of stakes, save for sweepstakes — make for an altogether bland bonanza. Jerry & Marge Go Large. Rated PG-13 for windfalls...
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By Siddhant Adlakha
Updated: Jun 17, 2022 4:06 pm
Posted: Jun 17, 2022 1:30 pm
Jerry & Marge Go Large was reviewed out of the Tribeca Film Festival, where it made its world premiere. It debuts on Paramount+ on June 17, 2022.
Based on the true story of Jerry and Marge Selbee — the retirees who gamed the Michigan Lottery system in the early-mid 2000s — Jerry & Marge Go Large is the kind of decent, inoffensive film that’s hard to dislike, even if it leaves you with little to love. A hodgepodge of various saccharine themes, it coasts largely on the caliber of its lead performers, Bryan Cranston and Annette Bening, who transform its gaudy sentimentality into something intimate. The result won’t knock your socks off, but it will outfit you with a fuzzy new pair, warm enough that you can ignore the occasional itch during its mere 96 minutes.
Jerry (Cranston) may not know people, but he knows numbers. Having reached the end of his tenure at the local Kellogg's factory, he bristles at the idea of retirement; during family dinners with his brother and adult children, the mere thought of sitting idle makes him impatient. His wife, Marge (Bening), senses something is amiss, but she knows it’s an adjustment. Anytime Jerry tries to make a small investment, his accountant, Steve (Larry Wilmore), reminds him of the long and boring process of doubling his money over seven and a half years. The answer, it would seem, lies in the Michigan Lottery system and its new Winfall game, where winnings trickle down to tickets containing two to four of the six jackpot numbers. Per Jerry’s calculations, if you purchase enough tickets, you’re practically guaranteed a return.
He hides his little gamble from Marge at first (though he would be sure to remind you that it isn’t a gamble at all!), but Jerry is a simple, small-town Midwesterner, and lying isn’t his forte. Soon, Marge gets involved in his scheme (a legal one, mind you) and the couple finally begins saving enough for retirement. Before long, their focus shifts from themselves to helping their struggling hometown of Evart, and the lottery becomes a community endeavor — but there’s a problem. Jerry and Marge aren’t the only ones who’ve figured out the loophole, and a snotty Harvard student, Tyler (Uly Schlesinger), is about to make things personal.
Director David Frankel has a light touch, though it’s never impersonal, given the way he lets Cranston and Bening’s dynamic dictate each scene. In a wholesome mirror to Cranston’s ruthless role on Breaking Bad, the lottery scheme gives Jerry a renewed sense of purpose, just when it felt like control was slipping from his grasp; at one point, he hides his initial winnings from Marge as if he were a secret agent. This renewed vigor carries over to the couple’s romance too; it’s an adventurous new lease on life that grants them new energy, and the confidence of a pair of beaten-down losers who care so little about being “cool” that they become almost admirable.
As much about the confines of money as it is about finding a new lease on life, Jerry & Marge Go Large is a sweet story of a retired couple gaming a lottery system. Bryan Cranston and Annette Bening shine as Jerry and Marge Selbee, the real-life couple whose attempts to help their home town were nearly thwarted by a college student, in a film that’...
- Siddhant Adlakha
Jun 15, 2022 · Jun 15, 2022 4:02pm PT. ‘Jerry & Marge Go Large’ Review: Bryan Cranston as the Real-Life Math Geek Who Beat the Lottery. The actor, teaming up with Annette Bening, does a sly job of...
Jun 15, 2022 · Bryan Cranston and Annette Bening in ‘Jerry & Marge Go Large’: Film Review | Tribeca 2022. A Michigan retiree with mad math skills finds a loophole in the lottery and uses the winnings to...
