Sudden wealth can be a blessing or a waste
First of all, the synopsis that Amazon uses to describe this documentary has nothing to do with the film contained herein:
"With the help of beautiful loner, Laura, Jake Reid travels to rural California to dig up the past and the loot from a botched robbery that killed his outlaw father years earlier. But the town of Covello has many dark secrets and Jake and Laura quickly realize that they aren't the only ones looking for the missing money."
A better description would be:
This documentary examines the lives of three winners of lotteries, two individual winners in New York and a group of school cafeteria workers in a small town in Minnesota. While the two New Yorkers managed to squander the entire sum of their winnings before ever the cameras roll, the more down-to-earth, Garrison Keilloresque ladies in Minnesota seem unwilling to allow money to change their core beliefs. In each story, you are given a sliver of time in which to learn a few things...
Boring...
This flashes back and forth between two has-been 1980's lottery winners and some cafeteria workers in Minnesota. The old men from New York are both poor now, and the cafeteria ladies (most of which are still working) are all doing fine, and have not squandered away their winnings. I would not recommend that you watch this unless you enjoy documentaries...and it's full of "fluff" and silly stuff that is totally irrelevant to anything else in the film.
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