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Release Date:
14 September 1994 (USA)
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Tagline:
Fifty million people watched, but no one saw a thing.
Plot:
Dick Goodwin discovers game shows are fixed: pretty boy WASP Charles Van Doren is fed answers so he beats geeky Jew Herbie Stempel. full summary | add synopsis
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Nominated for 4 Oscars.
Another 4 wins
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10 nominations
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(22 articles)
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A wonderful film
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| John Turturro | ... | Herbie Stempel | |
| Rob Morrow | ... | Dick Goodwin | |
| Ralph Fiennes | ... | Charles Van Doren | |
| Paul Scofield | ... | Mark Van Doren | |
| David Paymer | ... | Dan Enright | |
| Hank Azaria | ... | Albert Freedman | |
| Christopher McDonald | ... | Jack Barry | |
| Johann Carlo | ... | Toby Stempel | |
| Elizabeth Wilson | ... | Dorothy Van Doren | |
| Allan Rich | ... | Robert Kintner | |
| Mira Sorvino | ... | Sandra Goodwin | |
| George Martin | ... | Chairman | |
| Paul Guilfoyle | ... | Lishman | |
| Griffin Dunne | ... | Account Guy | |
| Michael Mantell | ... | Pennebaker |
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133 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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USA:PG-13 (certificate no. 32957) |
Netherlands:AL |
Iceland:L |
South Korea:15 |
Philippines:PG-13 |
Argentina:13 |
Australia:M |
Chile:14 |
Finland:S |
Germany:6 (w) |
Singapore:PG |
Spain:T |
Sweden:Btl |
UK:15
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Early in the film, when someone says that "There's a rumor Eisenhower died," Charles Van Doren's mother, Dorothy, quips, "How would they tell?" This is actually a quote from Dorothy Parker, the American writer and poet, which she said when she heard that former President Calvin Coolidge had died in January 1933.
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Anachronisms: The call letters on the TV cameras are WNBT. New York's NBC affiliate changed its call letters from WNBT to WRCA in 1954, 3 years before the Van Doren streak.
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Quotes:
Mark Van Doren:
If you look around the table and you can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in The 52nd Annual Golden Globe Awards (1995) (TV)
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Soundtrack:
MACK THE KNIFE
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I watched this film for about the fifth time last night. I first saw it a couple of years ago when my mum brought it home, she'd picked it out of the bargain bin at the supermarket, and what a bargain!
It is a superb tale, I notice some have said 'who cares it was just a dumb quiz show', well that is hardly the point, many films are made where, what was seemingly the subject is actually just a background for the real story to be told.
Quiz Show is a brilliantly told morality tale, but that is not to say it preaches. It can get away with not preaching because the consequences of their actions didn't harm anyone. It doesn't say, 'if you do something wrong you will be punished'. It says 'If you do something wrong, can you live with yourself'. "It's the getting away with it I couldn't stand" Charlie says at one point.
A classical tragedy of a man with the world at his fingertips who throws it all away at his own volition. As a classical Shakespearean actor Fiennes is perfect for the role.
A wonderful intelligent and literate script, the pieces between Charlie and his father in the Athanaeum and at the picnic are wonderful.
Subtle music and stylish presentation are the icing on the cake.