“FOOS:
Be The Greatest”
– Announcement Story
“A
fabulous job of capturing
the essence of the ‘foos’
experience.”
- Kathy Brainard, Co-Author
Complete Book of Foosball
It
is a game played on every
continent and every nation.
It is the mechanized child
of the planet’s
most popular sport played
with little men skewered
onto sticks and placed
into a desk-sized playing
field with a walnut sized
ball.
Limp
Lettuce Productions LLC
presents a Robert Ismert
documentary, “FOOS:
Be The Greatest”,
which will be available
soon on DVD (www.foosmovie.com).
Neither
a stranger to the sport,
nor to journalism, Robert
Ismert documents for the
first time the essence
of the ‘foos’
experience and the wild-ride
that is the history of
American foosball.
Through
interviews with the game’s
greatest players and accompanied
by the most comprehensive
collection of foosball
images, video and music
ever compiled, ‘FOOS’
tells the complete story
of one of the most popular
games ever created.
Follow
the highs and lows of
the sport through its
humble beginnings of arcade
hustlers and rag-tag barroom
matches to big money tournaments
and Million Dollar Tours.
During the 1970’s,
foosball quickly became
a national phenomenon.
It was the 8th largest
sport in the world and
was featured in Sports
Illustrated, 60 Minutes
and ABC News.
As
quickly as it swept across
America, it collapsed
even quicker resulting
in suicide, fraud, bankruptcy
and the almost complete
disintegration of an entire
sport, yet, it has survived.
Director
Robert Ismert skillfully
intertwines the game’s
great players, promoters
and history with the lives
of two diverging players
as they attempt to overcome
their own struggles and
demons to fulfill their
foosball dreams.
And
ultimately discover what
it takes to BE THE GREATEST.
When
a game is all you have
left…there is hope.
There is foosball.
Robert
Ismert presents a Limp
Lettuce Production LLC
of a Robert Ismert documentary,
“FOOS: Be The Greatest”.
Produced and directed
by Robert Ismert. Music
is by Gary Paulak. |