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When Luck Breaks the Door (2005)

When Luck Breaks the Door poster
Original title
Şans Kapıyı Kırınca
Directed by
Tayfun Güneyer
Genre
comedy film
Country
Turkey
Runtime
1h 47m
Rating
5.5 of 10 from 39 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man takes his family on a holiday to a Caribbean island. They get caught up in a CIA assassination plot.

light-heartedwhimsicalcomicalsillyadventurousexoticfast-paced

What happens

When Luck Breaks the Door (Turkish: Şans Kapıyı Kırınca) is a 2005 Turkish comedy film, written and directed by Tayfun Güneyer, featuring Ferhan Şensoy as a man who takes his family on a holiday to a Caribbean island at the centre of a CIA assassination plot. The film, which went on general release across the country on January 28, 2005 (2005-01-28), was shown in competition at the 42nd Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival. It was mostly shot on location in Cuba. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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