Although it premiered last year at the Tribeca Film Festival, Shout! Factory was smart to wait until this spring to release the drama The Ticket. On the heels of Legion and Beauty and the Beast, the star of Dan Stevens has now risen. In his new film, he plays a blind man who regains his vision and finds himself becoming metaphorically blinded by his obsession for the superficial. Ahead of a release this April, the first trailer has now landed.
We said in our review, “In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king, which is one of the lessons that the protagonist at the heart of Ido Fluk’s moral thriller The Ticket learns firsthand. The title refers to an antidote told one too many times about a man who prayed to God to win the lottery without every buying a ticket. I suppose, like James (Dan Stevens), the man should have been thankful for what he had all along. The road to this discovery is an ugly, humorless and often a pretentious bore as Fluk continues to hammer his point over and over again.”
Check out the trailer below for the film also starring Malin Åkerman, Kerry Bishé, Oliver Platt, Liza J. Bennett and Skylar Gaertner.
The Ticket hits theaters and on demand on April 7.