Marty Reisman was a rather notorious figure from the late 40’s in New York City’s underground table tennis (aka ping pong) world as a young 20-something shark who lured unsuspecting amateur players in and made big bets on himself at Lawrence’s Broadway Table Tennis Club. Later in 1958 and 1960 he would become US Singles Men’s champion in the rather obscure sport, among many other titles he accumulated in his life. He was nicknamed the ‘needle’ for his quick-talking wit and slender build.

Loosely inspired for his film, Marty Supreme on Reisman and a book he wrote about that period as a young man supremely confident in his skills in the game, Josh Safdie has made a supremely confident movie about a motor mouth fast talking, brash, ,talented, often arrogant young man named Marty Maus

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