What if winning the lottery was worse than losing it?
Set in rural Georgia, Fortune is a Southern Gothic tale of greed, where a blue-collared timber yard worker miraculously wins a massive lottery jackpot, but then loses the ticket before he can cash it in.
Acting
Corey Cott's unraveling is physically painful to watch
Cinematography
Georgia humidity practically drips off the screen
Direction
Perkins stretches 28 minutes into eternal dread
Director
Matthew Perkins
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Perkins based the timber yard on his uncle's actual business in Macon, lending the setting uncomfortable authenticity.
The lottery ticket prop was a real $2 million winner from 2019 that went unclaimed—Perkins bought it specifically for the irony.
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