martin short and danny glover star in pure luck and and the title plus short should be a tipoff a to the quality of this obvious tax writeoff . investigator glover be assign to find a miss heiress in mexico and short be send along a someone who share the heiress constant state of bad luck ( run into door and fall down and etc . ) . somehow this be suppose to mean short will be able to find the lady and who have be kidnap . i can not imagine anyone sit through this inept and unfunny flick in a theater . i couldn not finish it on tv . short have fall a long and long way from his innerspace day and and glover simply look embarrassed . he also mumble most of his dialog . pure luck make the man and with eugene levy and sam jackson play similar role and look like citizen kane . it be fair to say short auburn dye and perm hairdo in pure luck outperform short at every turn . avoid at all cost .