The Luckiest Man in America (2025)

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Title: The Luckiest Man in America (2025)

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Director: Samir Oliveros

Cast: Paul Walter Hauser, Walton Goggins, Shamier Anderson, David Strathairn, Maisie Williams, Patti Harrison, Brian Geraghty, Haley Bennett, Johnny Knoxville, David Rysdahl, Shaunette Renée Wilson, Ricky Russert, Lilli Kay, James Wolk

Release: 2025-04-04

Runtime: 90

Plot: 1984, Michael Larson, an unemployed ice-cream truck driver from Ohio, steps onto the game show "Press Your Luck" harboring a secret: the key to endless amounts of money. But his winning streak gets threatened when the executives in the control room start to uncover his real motivations.
 
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I just watched the whole episode on YouTube from 1984. That shit is insane.
Michael Larson, whom of which obviously has the tism. Recognized that the "big board" wasn't random at all but had only a couple preprogrammed patterns that it followed and Larson memorized them by recording the show on VHS and rewatching them.

 
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Paul Walter Hauser is so damn good. Will check this out for the cast.
 
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Vuuxo said:
I just watched the whole episode on YouTube from 1984. That shit is insane.
Michael Larson, whom of which obviously has the tism. Recognized that the "big board" wasn't random at all but had only a couple preprogrammed patterns that it followed and Larson memorized them by recording the show on VHS and rewatching them.

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This sort of "movie based on a show from the 70's and early 80's" has been a bit of a thing lately, between Late Night With The Devil (fictional but yeah) and the Dating Game Killer movie with Anna Kendrick. Between these movies and the Atari Collection on Switch, I've been getting nostalgic for an era I didn't even exist for and it's kinda crazy.

I've heard of this incident but I never actually saw it before. That is NUTS. At some point it becomes statistically completely unbelievable for him to keep, well, pushing his luck, and even the audience gets kind of hushed like "what is going on". I wonder what point he could have stopped at without the producers knowing he cheated.

Edit: After finishing the whole clip, quite frankly, what he did was so challenging to pull off that he deserved the money. Even if someone knows the algorithm, good luck actually memorizing and carrying it out like he did.

Paul Walter Hauser is PERFECT to play this dude
 
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That is not cheating. Cheating is when you find a way to alter the rules in your favor. He did not change the rules. It was not his fault that the system was not truly random. It should have been. He worked for the money. He had to have practiced for hours and hours to get that timing down. Despite all that, he could have miss timed that press on any one of those hits. I remember watching this show and thinking how it seemed like there was a pattern on how the system jumped from one to another. He saw the pattern and then studied it. Producers did not count on both a person studying it and having the skill to nail it every time. That was incredible to watch.
 
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Rajaah said:
This sort of "movie based on a show from the 70's and early 80's" has been a bit of a thing lately, between Late Night With The Devil (fictional but yeah) and the Dating Game Killer movie with Anna Kendrick. Between these movies and the Atari Collection on Switch, I've been getting nostalgic for an era I didn't even exist for and it's kinda crazy.

I've heard of this incident but I never actually saw it before. That is NUTS. At some point it becomes statistically completely unbelievable for him to keep, well, pushing his luck, and even the audience gets kind of hushed like "what is going on". I wonder what point he could have stopped at without the producers knowing he cheated.

Edit: After finishing the whole clip, quite frankly, what he did was so challenging to pull off that he deserved the money. Even if someone knows the algorithm, good luck actually memorizing and carrying it out like he did.

Paul Walter Hauser is PERFECT to play this dude
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That's the thing. He wasn't cheating. He exploited the patterns within the games rules. What he did was a loophole that I don't think even the producers knew about. If they did know, they must have hoped no one would figure out the pattern.
 
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Just because something isn't "cheating" doesn't mean they will allow it. Counting cards in a casino isn't cheating by any stretch of the imagination, but you'll get banned if they notice you doing it all the same. And counting cards is vastly easier than what I assume this guy did (haven't watched it yet, but I want to now).
 
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Just because something isn't "cheating" doesn't mean they will allow it. Counting cards in a casino isn't cheating by any stretch of the imagination, but you'll get banned if they notice you doing it all the same. And counting cards is vastly easier than what I assume this guy did (haven't watched it yet, but I want to now).
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This is true. It still is not cheating. The company just will not tolerate the action of gaming the system. Cheating is when you break the rules. The rules were not broken. Now I will watch this just to see how they did react. That being said, this person would get every dollar or courts would get involved and the TV producers would lose.

In a casino, I imagine you can count cards....once(If you are just by yourself using your brain). If they get wind of it, they probably just escort you out and you are banned. Nowadays that Ban could carry over to all casinos in the area. Now if you are using a second person....that is cheating.
 
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