The Luckiest Man in America

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Most game show buffs on this Bored know about Michael Larson, who figured out the rotation patterns on the network version of Press Your Luck in the 1980s and won over $100,000 on one show. His story has now been made into a fictional movie called The Luckiest Man in America, with Paul Walter Hauser as Larson. (Hauser is best known for playing Richard Jewell in the Clint Eastwood movie and for his recurring role as the oldest karate student in Cobra Kai.) Much of the movie is a recreation of Larson's actual appearance on the show. Walton Goggins co-stars as host Peter Tomarken, with David Strathairn, Maisie Williams, and Johnny Knoxville in the supporting cast. The film premiered this week at the Toronto Film Festival to middling reviews and will probably be in a limited independent release by the end of the year.

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[Bob Juch]

Most game show buffs on this Bored know about Michael Larson, who figured out the rotation patterns on the network version of Press Your Luck in the 1980s and won over $100,000 on one show. His story has now been made into a fictional movie called The Luckiest Man in America, with Paul Walter Hauser as Larson. (Hauser is best known for playing Richard Jewell in the Clint Eastwood movie and for his recurring role as the oldest karate student in Cobra Kai.) Much of the movie is a recreation of Larson's actual appearance on the show. Walton Goggins co-stars as host Peter Tomarken, with David Strathairn, Maisie Williams, and Johnny Knoxville in the supporting cast. The film premiered this week at the Toronto Film Festival to middling reviews and will probably be in a limited independent release by the end of the year.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/ ... etter%20AM

I read it will be on a streaming channel at the end of the month, but now I can't find where I saw that.