Marty Supreme

New York, 1952 – Marty Mauser (Timothee Chalamet) is working at a shoe store when he is visited by his childhood friend/neighbor Rachel Mizner (Odessa A’zion). She makes an excuse for Marty to take her to the back for them to hook up, but first, Marty is pulled aside by his boss and uncle, Murray (Larry “Ratso” Sloman). He wants to promote Marty to manager, but Marty doesn’t want to take the job because he has ambitions outside of the store. He then takes Rachel to go have sex.

Marty has ambitions to become a big name in table tennis, as it has been gaining popularity in places outside of the United States, but now he wants to bring attention the American side of the sport. He lives with his mother Rebecca (Fran Drescher), and Rachel and her husband Ira (Emory Cohen) are their neighbors. Marty also works with his friend Dion Galanis (Luke Manley) to produce orange ping-pong balls with his name on them, the “Marty Supreme” balls.

Marty goes to the store to get $700 from Murray that he needs to fund his trip to London to compete in the British Open, but Murray is on vacation. Marty talks to coworker Lloyd (Ralph Colucci) and tries to demand the money from him, even going as far as to aim a loaded gun at Lloyd. Marty relents and tells Lloyd that Murray was going to promote him and make him Lloyd’s boss, which Marty does not want to do, so he tells Lloyd to just tell Murray that he was robbed at gunpoint so that he can get his money. Lloyd complies.

In London, Marty is set to compete against champion Bela Kletzki (Geza Rohrig). Marty complains to the competition’s director about being put up in a complimentary hotel room that does not meet his standards. He later goes to a fancy hotel where he gets interviewed by a group of men before seeing Kay Stone (Gwyneth Paltrow), a once popular screen actress from the 30’s.

After beating Kletzki, the two have a friendly meal together when Marty sees Kay sitting with her husband, businessman Milton Rockwell (Kevin O’Leary). Marty tells the waiter to put Rockwell’s table’s meal on his tab, prompting the man to approach Marty’s table. Marty tries to be slick and get Rockwell to do business with him, inviting him to watch Marty compete against Japanese champion Koto Endo (Koto Kawaguchi).

Marty later calls Kay and convinces her to watch him compete at a table tennis match. She sneaks off and does so, watching Marty demonstrate his skill. They have dinner together and later go to his hotel room for sex.

The next day, Marty goes up against Endo and loses, which he does not take well. Marty later meets with Rockwell, who wants to organize a rematch with Endo in Tokyo, but he would have to throw the match to make the Japanese audiences happy. Marty gets heated when Rockwell laughs about his loss, prompting Marty to hit back with a crude comment about Rockwell’s son getting killed during WWII. Marty then goes on with Kletzki to tour with the Harlem Globetrotters.

Marty returns to New York to be with his mother. As he gets out of the shower, he is surprised by a cop that Murray called due to the robbery. After some back-and-forth, Murray convinces the cop to uncuff Marty, but he flees the apartment and rushes through the streets after dressing himself. He runs to Rachel’s place of work, where he sees she is eight months pregnant. She helps him hide, but she tells him the baby is his, which Marty does not believe.

Marty calls up his friend/fellow ping-pong player Wally (Tyler Okonma), and they stay in a crappy hotel. While taking a bath, Marty learns from Wally that he is banned from competing in the World Championships unless he pays a $1500 fine. Before he can react, Marty’s bathtub collapses through the floor and onto the bathroom below. It crushes the arm of a man named Ezra Mishkin (Abel Ferrara). Marty helps Ezra before medics arrive, who allows Marty to take some money in exchange for looking after his dog Moses. Marty agrees.

In order to make some dough fast, Marty and Wally start hustling at other ping-pong tournaments. While stopping at a gas station, they provoke a group of drunk guys who think they were ripped off by the duo. A fight ensues, with Marty dousing the guys in gas before they drive off. In the chaos, the gas station explodes (but the men survive) and Moses runs loose out of Wally’s car.

Rachel comes to Marty with a black eye, claiming Ira hit her. Marty sneaks into his mother’s room to grab a sports trophy and smashes it against Ira’s face. Rachel later joins Marty in his pursuit of getting Moses back. They track the dog down to a house near the gas station. Marty sees Moses through the homeowner’s window, but the man returns home and threatens Marty with a rifle after refusing to give Moses up. Rachel tries to help Marty find other alternatives to returning the dog to Ezra. Marty brings Dion’s father’s car back after it was shot at by the homeowner, and Dion, who was already forced to let Rachel stay with him, throws out Marty’s ping-pong balls in frustration. Additionally, Marty finds that the black eye was just makeup, and he and Rachel split up out of anger toward each other.

Marty later finds Kay at a theater where she is practicing for a comeback play. He takes a moment to show off his own skills for the actors, which impresses the director, but Kay pulls Marty aside. After talking, they go back to his hotel for sex again, where he removes a necklace of hers and lets it fall down the shower drain. She leaves after he makes a crass comment to her. Marty calls a plumber for the shower drain to get the necklace out and pawn it, but Marty learns the necklace is just costume jewelry.

Rachel attempts to use a fake dog to give back to Ezra and collect reward money from him. She guides him outside a restaurant where a man is holding a dog that looks like Moses, but Ezra spots the trickery right away. He stabs the man before kidnapping Rachel.

Marty attends Kay’s comeback show. Afterwards, she offers to help him out with his fine by giving him an expensive necklace that Rockwell usually gives her for her birthday every year. Marty kisses Kay out of gratitude and then tries to go down on her in Central Park, but they are spotted by police and have to give up the necklace to avoid getting arrested. Kay officially cuts ties with Marty.

Desperate, Marty resorts to begging Rockwell for a job and a way to help him fly to Tokyo. Rockwell agrees on the condition that Marty allow himself to be paddled on his bare ass. Marty drops his pants and complies.

Marty is at a match before leaving, when Ezra confronts him and tells him that he has Rachel with him and is threatening to kill her baby. Marty leaves with him and directs Ezra and his goons to the house by the gas station. Ezra recognizes Moses’s barking, but the homeowner shoots one of Ezra’s guys. A gunfight breaks out, where both Ezra and the homeowner and another one of his guys are all dead (but Moses is okay). Rachel has been shot, and Marty grabs some money from Ezra’s pocket before taking Rachel to the hospital. He is forced to leave her as she is going into labor.

Marty travels to Tokyo and tries to convince the director from London to give him another chance to compete, but he tells Marty it’s too late for him. He goes up against Endo to compete in the match that Rockwell organized, and he loses as planned, with the condition that Marty has to publicly kiss a pig for his arrogance. However, Marty convinces the audience and the officials to let him and Endo compete in a real match. Rockwell tells Marty that they are done. Marty and Endo get into an intense match, but Marty ultimately comes out on top and finally gets his victory. He falls to the floor, overjoyed with tears.

Marty catches a flight home with the military. He goes to the hospital, where Rachel is recovering after giving birth. Marty is taken to the maternity ward where he sees his baby, and he starts to weep.

Last Updated: December 30, 2025 at 06:57