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Mark Rylance Golf Comedy 'The Phantom of the Open' Lands at Sony Pictures Classics

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Sony Pictures Classics drove for the green and acquired a Mark Rylance golf comedy called "The Phantom of the Open." The film comes from director Craig Roberts and is a true story based on one of the worst rounds of golf ever.

Mark Rylance stars in "The Phantom of the Open," previously titled "The Fantastic Flitcrofts," as Maurice Flitcroft, a dreamer and unrelenting optimist who managed to gain entry to the British Open Golf Championship.

After qualifying in 1976, he subsequently shot the worst round in Open history, becoming a folk hero in the process.SPC picked up the North American, Thailand, France and China rights to the film.

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