The show was called 'Press Your Luck' and, in 1984, an Ohio man won a windfall on it, as dramatized in this retro-styled ...

The Luckiest Man in America co-writer/director Samir Oliveros talks his true story-based thriller and why there are no clear ...

The Luckiest Man in America,” now in theaters, resurrects a TV quiz show scandal that gifts character actor Paul Walter ...

Michael Larson, from Southwest Ohio, made history in 1984 when he won over $110,000 on the daytime game show, Press Your Luck ...

Black Bird's Paul Walter Hauser stars in the based-on-truth story of Michael Larson, who won thousands on a 1980s episode of ...

The 2025 drama The Luckiest Man in America, helmed by Samir Oliveros, offers a dramatized version of one of the most bizarre moments of American television history.

Paul Walter Hauser, who has made playing lovable losers his stock-in-trade, can't break through in "The Luckiest Man in America," which casts him as a "Press Your Luck" contestant who took the show ...

How to watch: In theaters Friday. “The Luckiest Man in America” is an ironic title for the story of Michael Larson, the Ohio man who managed to win over $110,000 on a 1984 episode of the game ...

If you’ve never heard of Michael Larson, a contestant who appeared ... Michael and CBS compete for the upper hand. The Luckiest Man in America Rated R. Language unfit for daytime TV.

There aren’t many movies about game-show scandals, with Robert Redford’s Quiz Show (1994) inevitably the one people know best ...

Directed by Samir Oliveros, with a screenplay written by Oliveros and Maggie Briggs, The Luckiest Man in America takes viewers back to the year 1984, when a man named Michael Larson (played by ...