Lackluster comedy starring Jimmy Stewart as a man who wins $24,000 of merchandise in a radio contest but finds he can't afford to pay the taxes on the prize. So he tries to sell the stuff he won and gets nothing but grief. Stewart's likable as ever and his supporting cast is fine. But the script, written by Nora Ephron's parents, is weak with a lot of forced comedy situations and a kind of ugly subplot about the wife irrationally thinking her husband is having an affair. Someone like Preston Sturges probably could have made this work much better than it does. Worth a look for Stewart fans I guess.
Review of The Jackpot
