MARTY SUPREME – Review by Susan Granger
Set in 1952, Marty Supreme revolves around cocky ping-pong prodigy Marty Mauser (Timothee Chalamet), an obnoxious, self-serving, self-confident con man whose reckless schemes propel him far from his Lower East Side, New York roots, much to the chagrin of his mother (Fran Drescher). Problem is: In the United States, table-tennis champions don’t make money, so Marty must sell shoes in his Uncle Murray’s (Larry ‘Ratso’ Sloman) store, where he has sex in the stockroom with his childhood sweetheart Rachel (Odessa A’zion), who is married to unsuspecting Ira (Emory Cohen).
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