The Luck of Barry 'Supreme' Lyndon, Esq., A Romance of the Last Century.
If survival in Marty Supreme involves tearing down others, it also means signing off on your own abuse and humiliation; in other words, being the clown they took you for in the first place. Table-tennis’s frequent comparisons to vaudeville and other forms of mass spectacle throughout the movie also tethers the game to early forms of American entertainment, most conspicuously the Hollywood studio system, which was heavily shaped by Jewish creatives and entrepreneurs and which was, at its inception, derided as cheap and sensational.
— Beatrice Loayza (The New Republic)
Synopsis: In 1950s New York, table tennis player Marty Mauser, a young man with a dream no one respects, goes to Hell and back in pursuit of greatness.