Synopsis
Fifty million people watched but no one saw a thing.
Lawyer Richard Goodwin discovers that 'Twenty-One', a successful TV quiz show, is rigged and decides to expose the team behind the show.
1994 Directed by Robert Redford
Lawyer Richard Goodwin discovers that 'Twenty-One', a successful TV quiz show, is rigged and decides to expose the team behind the show.
Ralph Fiennes Rob Morrow John Turturro David Paymer Hank Azaria Paul Scofield Christopher McDonald Allan Rich Martin Scorsese Elizabeth Wilson Mira Sorvino George Martin Johann Carlo Grace Phillips Griffin Dunne Paul Guilfoyle Michael Mantell Byron Jennings Ben Shenkman Timothy Busfield Jack Gilpin Bruce Altman Joseph Blaire Ernie Sabella Barry Levinson Debra Monk Mario Cantone Timothy Britten Parker Jerry Grayson Show All…
Michael Nozik Robert Redford Gail Mutrux Michael Jacobs Jeff McCracken Julian Krainin Richard N. Goodwin Susan Moore
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The ultimate WASPs vs Jews movie. As someone who is third culture kid split between these two traditions, this movie speaks to me. Honestly, if you're not from an East Coast, intellectual WASP family, you can never really understand the scene where Charles Van Doren drives to his parents' house in Connecticut in the middle of the night and wakes up his dad by drinking milk and eating chocolate cake and learns that his father had anxiety one time in his life about finishing a book of poetry. This is representation and it's not for everyone, but it is for me.
how the FUCK did forrest gump win ANYTHING the same year this was nominated. i would literally rather watch ralph fiennes stand in a box and think for 2 straight hours than ever watch forrest gump again, this movie owns my wig from here on out
can't believe martin scorsese won his first oscar for best actor in a motion picture for his revolutionary performance in Quiz Show (1994) dir. Robert Redford
i got such a buzz from that 2 second ethan hawke cameo where he plays a columbia student confused by don quixote
I love that John Turturro was the face of Jewish-American abjection in the early 90; his performance here is a 0.6 on the Barton Fink scale, while Ralph Fiennes is sublimely well cast - perfect, really - as a telegenic patrician deceiver, the know it all who wasn’t. This is Redford in deluxe cultural mythology mode, and it’s all very nicely engineered, though lacking the urgency and pungency that a filmmaker like, say, Oliver Stone or David Mamet would have brought it; it’s funny that it lost Best Picture to Forrest Gump, since it develops a not so subtle subtext that the Twenty-One scandal was a death knell for public intellectualism in American life , the dropped baton that Zemeckis’ idiot savant hero refuses to pick up as he runs across the finish line and into Heaven.
Good Lord, was Ralph Fiennes even able to cross the street in 1994-1995 without women passing out at the mere sight of him?!
Also featuring the thrilling cameo by Marty "I fucking hate CBM" Scorsese.
one of the best films i've ever seen and i wont rest until all of you see it too. in terms of screenplays you cant stan The Social Network without letting this blow your wig back to your ankles first