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The Phantom of the Open

Every dreamer deserves a shot.

6.8(140)20221h 46m4

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.

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Language
English
  • underdog
  • northern england
  • based on novel or book
  • sports
  • 1970s
  • golf
  • biography
  • based on true story
  • twins
  • shipyard
  • local legend
  • cumbria

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • Theatrical (limited)PG-13New York City, NY; Los Angeles, CA3 Jun 2022
  • United KingdomGB

    • PremiereLondon Film Festival12 Oct 2021
    • Theatrical12A18 Mar 2022
    • TVBBC Two9 Jun 2024
  • AustraliaAU

    • TheatricalM14 Jul 2022
  • DenmarkDK

    • PremiereA15 Oct 2022
    • TheatricalA15 Oct 2022
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical1214 Jul 2022
  • HungaryHU

    • Digital / OTT12TVOD12 Sept 2022
  • New ZealandNZ

    • Digital / OTTM1 Jan 2023
  • NorwayNO

    • Theatrical618 Mar 2022
  • PortugalPT

    • Digital / OTTM/1218 Mar 2022
    • TVM/1218 Mar 2022
  • Puerto RicoPR

    • Theatrical (limited)PG-1323 Jun 2022
  • South KoreaKR

    • Digital / OTT1514 Jun 2023
  • SpainES

    • Theatrical18 Nov 2022

Frequently asked questions

The Phantom of the Open was released on 18 March 2022.

Audience reviews

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    r96sk

    3/24/2022

    8/10

    Much more heartfelt than expected - pleasingly so! <em>'The Phantom of the Open'</em> is a very sweet film, with Mark Rylance being the absolutely perfect lead for it - great performance from him! I also enjoyed the humour, with many lines amusing me - including one that was lost in translation... It's a great (based on a true) story, one I had somehow never heard of even as a sports (golf much less so, admitte…

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    CinemaSerf

    4/4/2022

    7/10

    Based on the true story of Maurice Flitcroft who was almost as bad a golfer as me, Mark Rylance is on super form. He works at the Barrow-in-Firness shipyard just as it's about to be wound down. Looking for something new to do, he alights on golf - a game he is singularly useless at. Having managed to enter the Open Championship and shoot a round of 121, just about everyone at the R&A wants to be shot of him - and so …

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    Steve Parker

    8/5/2022

    8/10

    PHANTOM OF THE OPEN is a hilarious true story of the world's worst golfer, Maurice Flitcroft (played by Mark Rylance). In 1976, Maurice tried to qualify for the British Open and shot the worst round in history. Despite his lack of skill, Maurice became a folk hero and inspired other dreamers to never give up. Craig Roberts directs the film with a light touch, making the most of the absurd situations Maurice finds him…

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    Peter McGinn

    2/26/2023

    8/10

    It is a cliché that there are some performers people would watch reading from a phone book. An exaggeration, perhaps, but the leads in this movie, Mark Rylance and Sally Hawkins, approach that status for me. I also appreciated and recognized Mark Lewis Jones, though I knew not from where as I watched. As it happens, he had starred masterfully in the modern classic limited dramatic series Chernobyl. But this film i…

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