Overview:
Maurice Flitcroft, a dreamer and unrelenting optimist, managed to gain entry to The British Open Golf Championship qualifying in 1976 and subsequently shot the worst round in Open history, becoming a folk hero in the process.| Status: | Released (2022-03-18) |
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| Awards: | 2 nominations total |
| BoxOffice: | $748,695 |
| Screen: | Scott Murray, Simon Farnaby |
| Productions: | BBC Film, Baby Cow Productions, BFI, Ingenious Media, Water & Power Productions, Cornerstone Films |
| Production Countries: | United Kingdom |
| Spoken Languages: | English |
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- 40900: Mark Rylance - Maurice Flitcroft
- 39658: Sally Hawkins - Jean Flitcroft
- 559627: Jonah Lees - James Flitcroft
- 559626: Christian Lees - Gene Flitcroft
- 1412288: Jake Davies - Michael Flitcroft
- 185460: Mark Lewis Jones - Cliff
- 148142: Johann Myers - Willie
Crews
- 2817240: Scott Murray - Writer - Writing
- 40900: Mark Rylance - Executive Producer - Production
- 92736: Mark Gooder - Executive Producer - Production
- 1769000: Nichola Martin - Producer - Production
- 1187862: Sian Jenkins - Costume Designer - Costume & Make-Up
- 114253: Simon Farnaby - Executive Producer - Production
- 104561: Craig Roberts - Executive Producer - Production
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Reviews
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Much more heartfelt than expected - pleasingly so! <em>'The Phantom of the Open'</em> is a very sweet film, with Mark Rylance being the absolutely perfect lead for it - great performance from him! I also enjoyed the humour, with many lines amusing me - including one that was lost ....
Continue reading ->CinemaSerf
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Based on the true story of Maurice Flitcroft who was almost as bad a golfer as me, Mark Rylance is on super form. He works at the Barrow-in-Firness shipyard just as it's about to be wound down. Looking for something new to do, he alights on golf - a game he is singularly useless at. ....
Continue reading ->Steve Parker
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PHANTOM OF THE OPEN is a hilarious true story of the world's worst golfer, Maurice Flitcroft (played by Mark Rylance). In 1976, Maurice tried to qualify for the British Open and shot the worst round in history. Despite his lack of skill, Maurice became a folk hero and inspired other ....
Continue reading ->Peter McGinn
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It is a cliché that there are some performers people would watch reading from a phone book. An exaggeration, perhaps, but the leads in this movie, Mark Rylance and Sally Hawkins, approach that status for me. I also appreciated and recognized Mark Lewis Jones, though I knew not from w ....
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