Marty Supreme (2025) on Netflix
Marty Mauser sells shoes in his uncle's shop and plays table tennis, aiming for the British Open. He has an affair with his married friend Rachel Mizler and pitches orange novelty balls.
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- IMDb7.5/10219,697 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes94%
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In New York City in 1952, a professional table tennis player named Marty Mauser works at his uncle Murray's shoe shop and wants to win the British Open in London, which would bring American attention to a sport that draws little notice at home. He pitches orange novelty table tennis balls called Marty Supreme to his friend Dion and to Dion's father, a businessman. Marty is having an affair with Rachel Mizler, a married friend from his childhood. The London trip costs $700, and when his uncle Murray refuses to give him the money, Marty takes it from the shop's vault.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Marty Supreme (2025)
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- During a January 2026 A24 podcast conversation with Sean Baker, Josh Safdie said one early idea for the ending had an older Marty taking his granddaughter to a 1980s concert, where Kevin O'Leary's Milton Rockwell turned out to be an actual vampire and bit him; digital teeth were made for O'Leary before studio executives rejected it.
- Kevin O'Leary said a stunt double was initially intended to stand in for Timothée Chalamet in the paddle-spanking scene opposite him, but Chalamet insisted on doing it himself; the prop paddle broke on the first take, so a real paddle had to be used.
- Josh Safdie pitched Timothée Chalamet the lead by focusing on his physical similarity to real table tennis champion Marty Reisman; Chalamet accepted and began taking table tennis lessons that same year.
- Kevin O'Leary was pursued by Josh Safdie and Ronald Bronstein because of his persona on the ABC reality series Shark Tank; the pair flew out to his home to watch him read for the role.
- Timothée Chalamet became the first person to stand on top of the Las Vegas Sphere, filming it to promote the release; the Sphere's team pitched the idea to him and he designed and funded the stunt with CashApp.
- To make Timothée Chalamet's eyes look smaller, Josh Safdie had him wear prescription glasses with contact lenses underneath, temporarily impairing his vision, and make-up artist Michael Fontaine added pockmarks and nicks that Gwyneth Paltrow mistook for real acne scars.
- Josh Safdie became obsessed with the garbage on his film's 1950s New York streets, and set decorator Adam Willis proposed wetting the trash so actors felt the grit of the environment their characters lived in.
- Josh Safdie and Ronald Bronstein's script drew on the life of table tennis champion Marty Reisman, but sources close to the production called it "a fictionalized original, rather than a biopic"; the writers created backstories for every person who appears in the film.
