Odd couples are the name of the...

Odd couples are the name of the game in upcoming buddy movies. In Universal’s comedy “Pure Luck,” Danny Glover and Martin Short team up to go looking for a missing woman known to be incredibly unlucky. As they retrace her steps, Glover hopes that Short, who is incredibly unlucky too, will stumble into the same pitfalls as the woman. Herschel Weingrod and Timothy Harris’ script derives from Francis Veber’s French comedy, “La Chevre” (“The Goat”), which starred Gerard Depardieu and Pierre Richard. Australian Nadia Tass will direct this Americanization for producers Lance Hool and Sean Daniel. Filming begins Dec. 17 in Acapulco.

C. Thomas Howell and Wallace Shawn make an odd pair of detectives in RCA/Columbia’s “Nickel and Dime.” They play bounty hunters who search for heirs to large fortunes. The film, which goes the end of this month, was written by Ben Moses, Seth Front and Eddy Polon. Moses will direct for producer Lynn Danielson.

Donald Sutherland will play a Canadian Mountie in “Agaguk,” a period Eskimo drama co-starring Lou Diamond Phillips, Jennifer Tilly and Toshiro Mifune which films in Alaska and Canada beginning Nov. 15. Jacques Dortmann directs for producer Claude Leger.