Samir Oliveros, director of 'Luckiest Man in America,' has signed with Cinetic Media ahead of the film's release via IFC.

The Luckiest Man in America co-writer/director Samir Oliveros talks his true story-based thriller and why there are no clear ...

Filmmaker Samir Oliveros discusses his new film starring Paul Walter Hauser as a real-life contestant of the game show "Press Your Luck." 'The Luckiest Man In America' hits theaters on April 4 from ...

Black Bird's Paul Walter Hauser stars in the based-on-truth story of Michael Larson, who won thousands on a 1980s episode of ...

Credits: Directed by Samir Oliveros, starring Paul Walter Hauser, Walton Goggins, Maisie Williams, Shaunette Renee Wilson, Lilli Kay and Haley Bennett. Rating/runtime: R for language; 90 minutes.

Is Michael a loose cannon? The screenplay, by Maggie Briggs and the film’s director, Samir Oliveros, paints him as, at minimum, maladroit. He wears shorts with his tie and jacket. A woolly ...

The Luckiest Man in America' is an enjoyable yet mediocre historical dramatization that doesn't move the needle much one way or the other.

There aren’t many movies about game-show scandals, with Robert Redford’s Quiz Show (1994) inevitably the one people know best ...

Paul Walter Hauser in The Luckiest Man in America. (IFC Films/Courtesy of Everett Collection) ...

EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of the April 4th theatrical release of his latest film, The Luckiest Man in America, Samir Oliveros — writer, director, producer, and co-founder of filmmaking collective Plenty ...