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Juan Salvador and the Lottery Ticket

 Friday: The Penguin Lessons (2024)

      This movie is inspired by true events. Tom is an Englishman who gets a job at a school in Argentina in 1976. Argentina is divided between two political parties fighting to be on top. Tom no longer has passion for teaching. He's just there to make money. The school is shut down for a week due to a coup. So he goes on vacation to Uruguay. There he ends up rescuing a penguin from an oil spill. Despite his best efforts he can't find anywhere to leave the penguin so he ends up taking it back with him. Others discover Tom has a penguin and the penguin is named Juan Salvador. One day after continuing to struggle to keep his class under control Tom brings Juan Salvador to class. His students promise to behave if they can feed Juan Salvador. Slowly their schoolwork starts to improve. Tom finds his passion again. The fighting political parties continue to make life difficult. I thought this movie was good.

Sunday: Uptown Saturday Night (1974)

         Steve has just started his vacation when his friend Wardell convinces him to go to an illegal club called Madame Zenobia's. While there the club and everyone in it is robbed. The next day Steve finds out he won the lottery. Only problem is the lottery ticket was in his wallet that got stolen. Desperate to find it he enlists Wardell's help to get his wallet back. So begins their journey into the underworld of their city. Getting scammed and dealing with gangsters in an attempt to get his wallet back. This movie was alright. It was directed by Sidney Poitier, who also played Steve.

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