New Delhi, Jan. 25 -- It's a film set in the fifties of New York after World War 2. Everyone is working jobs they do not like. Marty Mauser makes that clear, and for that reason I began to root for him. The audience does not know how or why he thinks he's a champion ping pong player and that he can represent America at the British Open, but he explains:

The American Table Tennis Association is nothing but two guys at a table somewhere.

But Marty makes you believe that in New York, there is an underground ping pong betting thing where he can make enough money to travel to London to play the game. Not boxing, not MMA cage fights but ping pong. His partner in the table tennis grift is a New York taxi driver Wally (played magnificently by T...