Luckiest Man in America release set (PYL movie)

[Matt Ottinger]

This is the first movie that I have wanted to go to the theatre to see since Lincoln back in January 2013.

In general, Lincoln in a theatre is not a good image.

[tyshaun1]

I didn't expect to see a big turnout for this.  For a while it looked like my wife and I would be the only two as they arrived just a couple minutes before the show started.

FTR, my viewing on Friday afternoon had about 6 or 7 others in the theater. Got a little kick when Walton Goggins first appeared and a lady remarked, "Oh, they got him to play Peter!". Not surprised at the sparse turnouts when IFC did virtually no promotion of the film, other than a Tik Tok and YouTube trailer.

[aaron sica]

FTR, my viewing on Friday afternoon had about 6 or 7 others in the theater. Got a little kick when Walton Goggins first appeared and a lady remarked, "Oh, they got him to play Peter!". Not surprised at the sparse turnouts when IFC did virtually no promotion of the film, other than a Tik Tok and YouTube trailer.

That was about the turnout when I saw it too - Christian, myself, two other friends, and two other random people in the theater.

[parliboy]

My Sunday afternoon viewing experience was this:

Me and my wife, dead center in the middle of the theatre, completely alone.  We were the only souls there.

I started typing more, the realized it was better to put it in the spoiler-laded thread in summaries, so I'm going to head over there.

[BrandonFG]

The numbers are in…TLMiA ranked 15th at the box office with $282,000 across 659 theaters. Still haven’t been able to find anything about the budget but given it’s IFC I imagine it’s under $5M.

https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/2025W14/?ref_=bo_hm_rw

[SamPrainito]

My experience was the same as most.

Saw it last night (Sunday) at 9:45pm in suburban St. Louis.  I was the only person in the theater.

I enjoyed the movie.  Hauser and Coggins were very good.  The sets were amazing.  Lots of small details I didn’t care for.  For example, at one point Michael is told he can’t make a phone call because of Standards and Practices.  But later in the movie,  characters are freely roaming the halls.  It was odd.  Also, when did TV control rooms ever look like 80’s hotel living rooms??

Liberties were taken with the truth, but we knew that would be the case.  I always thought the villain in the story was CBS, not wanting to pay out.  Here, it’s the producer.

I was expecting more of a thriller, along the lines of “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind”.  And the ending is non-existent.  There’s not even a post script telling you what happened.

It wasn’t a bad way to spend a Sunday night, but I don’t think I’d go out of my way to see it again on streaming or cable.

[Eric Paddon]

I'm really not inclined to see it.   I have watched the original episodes so many times and to me the real excitement of the actual moment is something no movie can ever recreate without coming off as phony.