How to Steal Luck

Here are two theories on how to steal luck:
1. The Magic Kiss
2. The Violent Hug

The Magic Kiss
In the chick-flick-tacular Just My Luck starring Lindsay Lohan, Lindsay's character, Ashley, is the luckiest girl in Manhattan until she kisses an unlucky guy named Jake at a masquerade ball and some magic happens that switches their luck. Hilarity ensues as a now very-unlucky-Ashley tries to find the person she kissed (oh yeah, not only were they both wearing masks, but they didn't get each other's names before they kissed...classy) to retrieve her luck.

In the end (warning: plot spoiler... 'cause you would never guess this twist ending) Ashley finds Jake, gets to know him (before she realizes that he's the luck stealer), falls in love and doesn't want to take the luck away from him 'cause she loves him so much and all. But 'cause he loves her too he insists that she take the luck back. Then they figure out that they can just pass the old luck back and forth by kissing, which they intend to do all the time. So it all works out in the end. Shocker.

The Violent Hug
However, in Intacto, which looks MUCH MORE INTERESTING (I guess that's not a super huge challenge) I don't think everything works out so great in the end. The movie is about a crazy lucky guy, Federico, who is employed by casino owner, Sam, to outluck everyone at roulette tables. When Federico tries to leave the casino, he's cast out and violently stripped of his luck with a hug from Sam (a scary, scary hug of course). Wanting revenge , Federico sets out to create a dream team of lucky people (sole survivors of crashes and stuff) and tests their luck with increasingly dangerous and terrifying dares to find out who's the most fortunate. The stakes are high: only the luckiest of the four finalists will emerge intact. Get it? Intact. Definitely check out the trailer.

So those are the two theories I'm working with so far in the quest to find my luck and retrieve it. The magic kiss and the violent hug. And while there's a lot more research to be done, what's fairly certain is that this holiday season everyone can expect a kiss and a hug from me.