![]() Playing the role of Ellen’s son, Seth, is Christopher Convery, who was the lead on the horror movie Brahms: The Boy II. Playing the older version of Roger Sharpe is character actor Dennis Boutsikaris, who recently had a recurring role in the series Better Call Saul. Joining him in the role of Ellen is Crystal Reed, who audiences will know from the Teen Wolf series. Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game stars West Side Story actor Mike Faist as the younger version of Roger Sharpe. As Roger begins a new relationship with a single mother named Ellen, he is approached by the Music and Amusement Association to help overturn the ban on pinball, leading to a standoff with government bureaucrats in City Hall. ![]() ![]() Writing for a certain burgeoning magazine called GQ, Sharpe is shocked to find that pinball has been illegal in New York City since the 1930s, when it was declared a form of gambling targeting children. A new such comedic biopic to be released this week is Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game (2023), a 1970s-set film in which a recently divorced and fantastically mustached writer named Roger Sharpe finds an unlikely obsession with the game of pinball. There are times, though, when humor is allowed to live and breathe in true-life stories that are larger than life in their subjects and stories. Biopics can be stuffy affairs at times, with the genre often associated with Oscar bait pictures and period films in which “important” stories are told with the goal of inspiring its audience to emotional, teary-eyed excess.
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