Super-nice cop Nicolas Cage offers waitress Bridget Fonda half his lottery ticket as a tip; he wins and keeps his promise, much to annoyance of shrewish wife Rosie Perez, particularly when they fall in love. Sweet film is actually very old-fashioned, written by Jane Anderson. It's very loosely based on a true story of cop and waitress friends who shared a lottery ticket and won big, but there was no romantic involvement or fall-out.
Cast includes Wendell Pierce, Isaac Hayes, Seymour Cassel, Stanley Tucci, Richard Jenkins, Red Buttons and The Sopranos' Vincent Pastore.
Photographed by Caleb Deschanel, music by Carter Burwell, edited by Barry Malkin.
To answer my own question, Bridget retired in 2002 to start a family, aged 38. Good for her, but a loss to us.
Loved the hold-up scene - Cage knows exactly what's going on as the Korean wife is reportedly ill ("She'd carry on working if she was dead") and the husband gives them the coffees "on the house".
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