Throughout the years there has been so much unexpected entertainment to come out of game shows from bloopers to scandals and even murder. In the early 1980s a man took the chance against the famed Whammies on Press Your Luck that has been the subject matter of documentaries and legend. Now the story has come to life in The luckiest Man in America starring Paul Walter Hauser, Walton Goggins, Shameir Anderson, David Strathairn, Maisie Williams, Brian Geraghty, and Patti Harrison from director Samir Oliveros. Does the film play the game to deliver, or will it hit all Whammies before the first buzzer?

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The Luckiest Man in America follows Michael Larson in 1984, an unemployed ice-cream truck driver from Ohio that 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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The premise of this crazy story is simple and not near as deep as I thought it might be, but they managed to create a film that keeps you invested. A lot of this film works through the old school look to the film matching the 80s and the recreation of the Press Your Luck set. Coupled with the brilliant performance by Hauser and you are transported back to the set of this show and all its crazy fun and the wacked out story that unfolded.

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The entire cast is great and helps to bring the tension as the game is unfolding and the mystery of what is going on behind the scenes comes crashing together. We are pulled into the game play like you are watching it on TV then head into the control room as excitement and panic sets in all while another person is trying to solve the mystery to how Larson is pulling this off.

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