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Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game is a 2022 biographical comedy drama film directed and written by the Bragg brothers. The film stars Mike Faist , Crystal Reed , and Dennis Boutsikaris . It is based on true events around the story of Roger Sharpe , GQ journalist and real-life " pinball wizard" who in 1976 helped overturn New York City's 35 ...
A Man Called Ove (Swedish: En man som heter Ove, pronounced [ɛn ˈmanː sɔm ˈhěːtɛr ˈǔːvɛ]) is a debut novel by Swedish writer Fredrik Backman published in Swedish by Forum in 2012. [1] The novel was published in English in 2013 and reached the New York Times Best Seller list 18 months after its publication and stayed on the list for ...
Sharpe gained notoriety following a 1976 New York City hearing where he provided a demonstration to members of the Manhattan City Council, that pinball was a game of skill rather than a game of chance, and therefore not subject to legal prohibitions on gambling. [2]
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Actor Martin Delaney has stepped into the shoes of a tech visionary in the new film “The Man Who Saved the Internet With a Sunflower.” Delaney portrays Robert Ryan, the founder of Ascend ...
Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam (English: The Man Who Saves The World) is a 1982 Turkish science fantasy martial arts superhero adventure film directed by Çetin İnanç, [1] [2] and starring actor/martial artist Cüneyt Arkın. [3] It was first released in November 1982 by Anıt Ticaret in Turkey, and later in 2005 by BijouFlix Releasing in the United ...
Garbo: The Spy (also known as Garbo, the Man Who Saved the World and Garbo: El Espia) is a Spanish documentary about Juan Pujol Garcia's role in the Second World War, directed by Edmon Roch. The documentary reconstructs the career of "Garbo," who formed the centrepiece of Allied deception and counter-information to have the Nazis believe that D ...
The Man Who Saved the World is a 2013 feature-length Danish documentary film by filmmaker Peter Anthony about Stanislav Petrov, a former lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces and his role in preventing the 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident from leading to nuclear holocaust.