PG-13 | 1h 30m | Comedy | June 17, 2022 Actor Bryan Cranston broke big in HBO’s “Breaking Bad.” He was already well known as the zany dad from TV’s “Malcolm in the Middle,” but “Bad” put him on Hollywood’s A-list, playing a New Mexico high school chemistry teacher who starts cooking crystal meth to supplement his paltry income. His character, Walter White, didn’t tell his wife what he was up to.
In “Jerry and Marge go Large,” Cranston is Jerry, a Michigan retiree who worked 42 years at the Kellogg’s cereal plant, and who figures out how to game the lottery system. And at first he doesn’t tell his wife Marge what he’s up to either; he just stuffs wads of $100 bills in the big crackerjack tin in the pantry until his granddaughter wants crackerjacks. Then the loot goes in the Wheaties box. The charming “Jerry and Marge Go Large” is based on a true-life story chronicled in a 2018 Huffington Post article….