“Egotistical Young Man Does Well, Sort of”
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What You Need To Know:
MARTY SUPREME is a tiring, hyperactive drama about an unlikeable, egotistic street hustler who has some athletic prowess mixed with a gift of gab and plenty of chutzpah. The movie is heavily marred by an abundant amount of strong foul language, mixed with illicit sexual escapades, lies and deception. A final scene almost redeems MARTY SUPREME when the title character cries when he sees his newborn child for the first time in the maternity ward.
Content:
Strong Romantic worldview about an egotistical young man who does everything he can to achieve his personal dreams as a professional table tennis player in the early 1950s, title character gets one married woman pregnant and seduces an older married woman, a former movie star, but one scene shows title character moved to tears at the sight of his baby in a maternity ward and is magnanimous to his talented opponent in one scene after he wins an exhibition tennis match;
At least 94 obscenities (including at least 63 “f” words), one strong profanity using the name Jesus Christ, five GD profanities, and 13 light profanities;
Some strong and light violence with some blood incudes some fighting, a gunfight leaves several people shot dead, when a man takes a bath in a flophouse the tub falls through the floor and onto a man and his dog in the apartment below, the man in the tub agrees to take the injured man’s dog to a vet, but the dog gets scared and runs away then tries to catch the car in which it was riding, car hits a porch, there’s a gas explosion, police car hits some crates when the police chase an armed robber, man threatens people with a shotgun, man struggles with a cop then runs away, man submits to being spanked publicly by an older man to get a favor from him (that’s the price the older man sets for the favor), man punches husband of his mistress after she lies about the husband hitting her, people throw some things in anger, a man is stabbed in the stomach, pregnant woman appears to be wounded by a man indiscriminately firing a shotgun, but she survives and gives birth to a healthy baby;
A scene of depicted adulterous fornication, man pursues a glamorous older married woman, passionate adulterous kissing, three scenes of implied adulterous fornication with two separate women, and after one of those implied instances there’s a filmed sequence of how conception occurs;
Some images of upper and rear make nudity;
Alcohol use;
Cigarette smoking, but no drugs; and,
Title character is conceited, lies often, commits armed robbery, hustles other people, and falsely accuses opponent of cheating, he and his black friend also hustle some young white men in table tennis, plus his young married (and pregnant) mistress lies about her husband hitting her (the husband is verbally abusive with anger issues but he’s not shown being physical toward her).
More Detail:
The movie opens with Marty working in his uncle’s shoe store. Marty’s uncle wants him to become store manager, even though the uncle has a son also working in the store. Marty adamantly tells his uncle, and his mother, that he’s NOT a shoe salesman. Also, he wants his uncle to give him the $700 the uncle promised to give him so that Marty can compete in the world table tennis championship in London. Neither the uncle nor anyone else understand Marty’s obsession with the sport.
Meanwhile, Marty takes his childhood friend and married mistress, Rachel, in the back room for an illicit rendezvous. Cut to an unexpected, obnoxious visual montage of Marty’s sperm swimming to unite with Rachel’s ovum, with one little guy winning the race.
Marty has to leave the store for a while, but he returns to get the $700 his uncle promised him. However, the uncle is gone, trying to force Marty to stay and work for him. So, Marty robs his cousin, the uncle’s son, at gunpoint. Marty promises the cousin he’s going to pay back his uncle because Marty’s absolutely certain he’s going to win the tournament and return with lots of prize money. When the cousin won’t budge, Marty informs him that the man’s father wants to make Marty store manager instead of him. The cousin finally opens the safe and gives Marty the money.
In London, Marty meets a faded movie star, Kay Stone, who’s married to Milton Rockwell, the obnoxious, ruthless owner of a large ink and pen company, played by Gwenyth Paltrow and Kevin O’Leary, aka “Mr. Wonderful” of ABC’s SHARK TANK program. Marty and Kay unconvincingly have a secret affair.
At the table tennis tournament in London, Marty rises up the ranks to compete for the championship against the other top player, a quiet and intense Japanese man named Endo. Marty is unprepared for the way Endo plays, and he loses three straight games and the championship match. Then, he embarrasses himself by complaining loudly that Endo cheated.
Meanwhile, Kay’s husband, Milton, who still doesn’t know about their affair, wants Marty to join an exhibition match in Tokyo with Endo before the 1953 championship. In Paris, while Marty’s doing an exhibition tour overseas, Milton offers to pay for Marty’s plane ticket and put him up at a fancy hotel in Tokyo. However, Marty refuses. He doesn’t want any distractions during the upcoming 1953 championship. He’s determined to beat Endo and win. Besides, Milton wants Marty to throw the exhibition match so Milton can sell pens in Japan.
Back in New York, Marty’s uncle tries to get Marty to come back to the shoe store and become store manager. However, Marty wants to return to the 1953 table tennis championships in Tokyo and needs to raise money for the trip. So, his uncle gets a friendly police officer to charge Marty with armed robbery, but Marty runs away.
While hiding from the police, Marty checks into a flophouse. The flophouse manager tells Marty not to use the bath, but Marty ignores him. While bathing, the tub crashes through the floor and lands on top of an elderly gangster, also hiding from the police, and the man’s dog.
The injured gangster asks Marty to take the dog to a vet. So, Marty and his black cabdriver friend agree to take the dog to a vet. However, they accidentally run into some young white guys who got into a fight with Marty earlier, and the dog escapes while Marty and his friend flee from the young men.
Meanwhile, Marty learns Rachel is pregnant but denies her child is his. However, he helps Rachel hide from her volatile husband, who she claims hit her in the face.
Marty then learns that the international table tennis committee has charged him a big fine because of his obnoxious behavior in London. Now, he needs to raise even more money if he hopes to compete in the 1953 world championship in Tokyo.
Marty learns that Rachel lied to hm about her husband beating her up. Marty’s very upset, but he forgives her if she’ll help him find the gangster’s dog. Marty figures that, if he can find the dog, the gangster will give him a nice reward.
Things don’t go as planned, however.
MARTY SUPREME is a tiring, hyperactive drama about an unlikeable, egotistic street hustler who has some athletic prowess mixed with a gift of gab and chutzpah. The movie is heavily marred by an abundant amount of strong foul language, mixed with illicit sexual escapades, lies and deception. A final scene almost saves the movie when Marty breaks down and cries when he sees his infant child for the first time in the maternity ward.
