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 ...

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

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

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.

“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 show “Press Your Luck.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...