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Quiz Show (1994) | User Rating
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Release Date
• USA: Sep 14, 1994
DVD Release Date
• R1: Sep 7, 1999
• R2: 8 Apr 2002
Running Time
2 hours, 13 minutes
Country USA
Production Companies
Baltimore Pictures, Hollywood Pictures, Wildwood Enterprises
Studio Buena Vista
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• Quiz Show (1994)
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Genre: Drama, True Story, Political, Deception, Showbiz, Investigation, Period Piece, Scams And Cons
Tagline: Fifty million people watched, but no one saw a thing.
Plot: Based on the book by Richard N. Goodwin, this Robert Redford film tells the true story behind the great quiz show scandal of 1959. As television becomes more popular throughout the 1950s, quiz shows follow suit, attracting compulsive viewers who cheer for the brilliant, intellectual contestants--America’s best and brightest. Herbert Stempel (John Turturro) may be unattractive and abrasive, but in 1959 he is the reigning champion of the game show TWENTY-ONE. When ratings begin to slip, the network decides that it’s time to bring in a more appealing champion and bribes Stempel to answer incorrectly and purposely lose to Charles Van Doren (Ralph Fiennes), a handsome WASP professor who eventually achieves celebrity status and incredible wealth. Feeling bitter and betrayed, Stempel accuses the producers of feeding answers to the quiz show winners, prompting a congressional investigation. As the scandal grows, a different portrait of America emerges--one that shatters the nation's illusion of perfection so prevalent in the 1950s. Rob Morrow stars as Dick Goodwin, the investigator who labors tirelessly to establish the truth and simultaneously develops a respectful friendship with the subject of the investigation, Van Doren.
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Robert Redford
Ordinary People, A River Runs Through It, The Legend of Bagger Vance |
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| Cast |
John Turturro
The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Secret Window |
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 | Hank Azaria
Heat, Godzilla, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story |
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Summer of Sam, Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, Beautiful Girls |
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