The show was called 'Press Your Luck' and, in 1984, an Ohio man won a windfall on it, as dramatized in this retro-styled ...

EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of the April 4th theatrical release of his latest film, The Luckiest Man in America, Samir Oliveros — writer, director, producer, and co-founder of filmmaking collective Plenty ...

Samir Oliveros is back in the director's chair with his first feature film in nearly a decade with The Luckiest Man in America. The filmmaker, who previously made his debut with the 2017 dramedy ...

Paul Walter Hauser in The Luckiest Man in America. (IFC Films/Courtesy of Everett Collection) ...

Paul Walter Hauser leads a considerable cast for the new movie, directed by Samir Oliveros from a script he wrote with Maggie Briggs. While younger (well, younger-ish, the figures for the likes of ...

Paul Walter Hauser, who has made playing lovable losers his stock-in-trade, can't break through in "The Luckiest Man in America," which casts him as a "Press Your Luck" contestant who took the show ...

As depicted in Samir Oliveros’ film inspired by this odd moment in television history, the “luckiest man” title was hastily brainstormed by the panicking producers backstage, hoping to spin ...

Is Michael a loose cannon? The screenplay, by Maggie Briggs and the film’s director, Samir Oliveros, paints him as, at minimum, maladroit. He wears shorts with his tie and jacket. A woolly ...

Samir Oliveros' sophomore feature turns a legendary daytime TV scandal into an ensemble thriller that wisely never strays from its Hollywood setting. Samir Oliveros’ “The Luckiest Man in ...

Additionally, Oliveros is a partner and co-founder of the aforementioned Plenty Good alongside Tomás Gómez Bustillo, Ciro Apicella, RJ Glass, Gewan Brown and Amanda Freedman.

EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of the April 4th theatrical release of his latest film, The Luckiest Man in America, Samir Oliveros — writer, director, producer, and co-founder of filmmaking collective Plenty Good — ...