2022 · drama · comedy · sports
The Phantom of the Open
Directed by Craig Roberts1h 46m2022
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.
Our read: The Phantom of the Open (2022) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded drama · comedy · sports entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle drama / comedy, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
- intimate
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