IFC Films and Sapan Studios have teamed up to buy 'The Luckiest Man in America,' a game show drama starring Paul Walter ...

The thriller directed by Samir Oliveras fictionalizes the true story of a man who had a massive winning streak on the '80s ...

Director Samir Oliveros and star Shamier Anderson discuss how they stacked this cast, recreating an '80s game show, and ...

IFC Films and Sapan Studio have acquired US rights to Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) selection The Luckiest Man ...

Yet “The Luckiest Man in America” is designed more to answer the former question, constrained by a real-time format to track the day of the taping when Larson threatened to break the bank.

For a film about a game show surrounding the pushing of a button at just the right moment, it’s fascinating how “The Luckiest Man in America” goes out of its way to never fall into a pattern.

So game show contestant Michael Larson (Paul Walter Hauser) is told late in The Luckiest Man in America by a talk show host (Johnny Knoxville) after he interrupts his taping. The statement ...

“The Luckiest Man in America” is at its best when it narrows its focus on game show drama. The stealthy behind-the-scenes investigation into Larson’s conduct from the producers and crew ...

Like Larson did that fateful day in ’84, Hauser, Goggins, and Strathairn all seem to have had the run of their lives on “The Luckiest Man in America,” as did the rest of the cast ...

‘The Luckiest Man in America’ follows a man who won the largest ever prize in game show history by gaming the system. A scene from ‘The Luckiest Man in America’ courtesy of TIFF ‘The Luc ...

By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau Chief “The completion of a dream,” is how director Samir Oliveros describes the world premiere of his game show thriller The Luckiest Man in America at the ...