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Oct 7, 1994 · Quiz Show: Directed by Robert Redford. With John Turturro, Rob Morrow, Ralph Fiennes, Paul Scofield. A young lawyer, Richard Goodwin, investigates a potentially fixed game show. Charles Van Doren, a big time show winner, is under Goodwin's investigation.
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- Biography, Drama, History
- Robert Redford
- 1994-10-07
Quiz Show - Paul Scofield & Ralph Fiennes (father & son part 1) "Something on your mind?" Charles Van Doren just can't admit to his father Mark that he cheated on Twenty One. ...more....
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Dramatizing the Twenty-One quiz show scandals of the 1950s, the screenplay by Paul Attanasio adapts the memoirs of Richard N. Goodwin, a U.S. Congressional lawyer who investigated the accusations of game-fixing by show producers.
Sep 16, 1994 · The congressional investigator, Richard Goodwin ( Rob Morrow) is a Jew who is attracted to the genteel intellectualism of the Van Dorens (who, at a family dinner, play a Shakespeare trivia game). Goodwin attempts to bring down the quiz shows on Stempel's testimony while giving Van Doren a pass - just because he likes him. Advertisement.
Directed with sly refinement by Robert Redford and given pizazz by a slew of superb performances, Quiz Show intelligently interrogates the erosion of public standards without settling on tidy...
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- Drama
- PG-13
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Don't get Dorothy started on politics. There'll be a raid. Charles Van Doren : Last week alone, I had 11 proposals of marriage! Mark Van Doren : Perhaps you should accept one of them. Dorothy Van Doren : [to Mark] And to think, they unleash you on those impressionable young minds.