Rock Paper Scissors

Running time: 88 mins

Rock crushes scissors. Paper covers rock. Scissors cuts paper. Can purity beat commerce?

The Walker brothers wanted to turn a child?s game into a good-natured competitive sport, but when the RPS fanatics converge on the world championships, they?re caught between big business, talk show pundits, Playmate mascots, and a battle of good versus evil.

Diving headfirst into an extreme subculture that has taken a simple game to unbelievable heights, Mike McKeown?s vérité style tracks the evolution of Rock Paper Scissors (known as RPS) into a legitimate sport of skill and strategy, worthy of training and competition. Culminating with the World Championships, this intimate and hilarious look at the sport and its devotees navigates a terrain built of comical strategies, fascinating arguments, and heated competition. One thing is abundantly clear; RPS is much more than a game, it?s a lifestyle.