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Phantom of the Open, The [Opens June 16 in theaters.] Craig Roberts' engaging, uplifting, factually based, funny, delightful, well-acted, heartwarming, star-studded (Mark Lewis Jones, Johann Myers, Ian Porter, and Nigel Betts), 106-minute, 2021 biographical comedy based on Simon Farnaby and Scott Murray's biography The Phantom of the Open: Maurice Flitcroft, The World's Worst Golfer in which eccentric English shipyard crane operator and amateur golfer Maurice Flitcroft (Mark Rylance), who has a supportive wife (Sally Hawkins) and three sons (Jonah Lees, Christian Lees, and Jake Davies), in Barrow-in-Furness goes for his dreams to play in the £10,000-prize British Open Golf Championship in 1976 with gusto even though he had never played a round of golf and despite his poor score and opposition by the lead Open tournament official (Rhys Ifans) and snooty golfers (Tim McInnerny, et al.), he secured a qualifying place in the tournament, became popular and gained a following with common folk who identified with his failures and admired his tenacity and perseverance against all odds.
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