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The Phantom of the Open

PG-13·2022·106m

Drama

Comedy

Drama

Comedy

Summary

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.

Cast

Mark Rylance

Maurice Flitcroft

Sally Hawkins

Jean Flitcroft

Jonah Lees

James Flitcroft

Christian Lees

Gene Flitcroft

Jake Davies

Michael Flitcroft

Mark Lewis Jones

Cliff

Johann Myers

Willie

Rhys Ifans

Keith Mackenzie

Ash Tandon

Lloyd Donovan

Ian Porter

Dick Nelson

Nigel Betts

Tony Marsh

Afsaneh Dehrouyeh

Josie

Simon Farnaby

Laurent Lambert

Steve Oram

Gerald Hopkins

Neil Edmond

Bruce Atkins

Tim Berrington

Golfer 1

Terence Booth

Golfer 2

Ian Mansfield

Greenkeeper

Amy Alexander

Jenny

Tim Steed

John Pegg

Mark Bosch

Seve Ballesteros

Ebenezer Eben-Spiff

Jim Howard

Tommy Fallon

Young Maurice

David Mara

Genial Father

Austin Griffin

Young Mike

Graeme Hawley

Rory Thomson (TV Bright)

James Flitcroft

Drunk Man 1

John McGrellis

Drunk Man 2

Natsumi Kuroda

Naoko

Dai Tabuchi

Akira

Sadao Ueda

Kenji

David Ahmad

Journalist 1

Michael Dobby

Journalist 2

Orla Cottingham

Pam

Bianca Tranter

Mike’s Secretary

Anthony J. Abraham

Young Golfer

Michael McKenna

Barman Dan

Maurice Flitcroft

Self (archive Footage)

Mike Capozzola

Terry Moore

Holly Barnard

Debbie Moore (uncredited)

Pierre Bergman

Groundsman (uncredited)

Crew

Director

Craig Roberts

Book, Screenplay, Writer

Simon Farnaby

Book, Writer

Scott Murray

Reviews

r96sk

March 24, 2022

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, admittedly) fan; I did slightly recognise the name Maurice Flitcroft though. Even if you don't follow golf, it definitely works as a standalone thing and it doesn't heavily focus on the sport anyway; much more to it.

Pretty neat to see Craig Roberts direct (his third, but first I've seen) this - I remember watching him act in TV's <em>'The Story of Tracy Beaker'</em> when I was a kid. Well in, Rio Wellard!