"Marty is already an international ping-pong star, but ping-pong doesn't pay the bills, so meanwhile he lives rent-free with his mother (Fran Drescher) and Uncle Murray (Larry Sloman), slings wingtips, and has an affair with the married Rachel. He's slated to compete in the 1952 British Open, but Murray owes him $700 in pay that will get him to London."
"In broad strokes, Marty Supreme follows Marty as he loses the British Open to a Japanese player named Koto Endo (Koto Kawaguchi) and woos actress Kay Stone (Gwyneth Paltrow), tours with the Harlem Globetrotters for eight months, returns to New York, and then-over the course of five feverish days-evades arrest for armed robbery, takes charge of and loses a mafioso's (Abel Ferrara) German shepherd,"
A surreal title card transforms conception into a ping-pong ball that symbolizes life and competition. Marty Mauser, a 23-year-old ping-pong prodigy, lives rent-free with family, slings shoes and conducts an affair while trying to finance travel to the 1952 British Open. He stages robberies and escalating schemes to fund his table-tennis ambitions and a bid for the World Championship in Tokyo. He loses the British Open, courts actress Kay Stone, tours with the Harlem Globetrotters, and endures five chaotic days of evading arrest, losing a mafioso's German shepherd, hustling players, soliciting money, and agreeing to throw an exhibition match.
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