EXCLUSIVE: Vertical Entertainment has secured North American rights to the MPI Original Film Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game, starring BAFTA- and Tony Award-nominated West Side Story breakout Mike Faist and Teen Wolf‘s Crystal Reed, slating it for a day-and-date release on March 17, 2023.
The film based on a true story centers on Roger Sharpe (Faist), a GQ journalist and real-life pinball wizard who, in 1976, helped overturn New York City’s 35-year ban on pinball.
An unsettled writer with a fantastic mustache, Sharpe finds solace and confidence in the one thing he has mastered: pinball.
When a police raid destroys the only machines he can find in 1970s New York City, he learns the game is illegal in the state.
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