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Name: Quiz Show
Released: 1994-9-16
Cast: John Turturro, Rob Morrow, Ralph Fiennes, David Paymer, Paul Scofield

Quiz Show

PG-13
2h 13m
1994

97%

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An exciting look behind the scenes at the thrills and high-stakes competition of TV's hottest big-money game show! But fame and fortune become a hotbed of scandal when a Washington investigator (Rob Morrow) uncovers corruption beneath the quiz show's glittering facade. The scandal implicates both the wildly popular champion (Ralph Fiennes) and the disgruntled ex-champ (John Turturro).

Director:

Robert Redford

Writer:

Paul Attanasio

Cast:

John Turturro, Rob Morrow, Ralph Fiennes, David Paymer, Paul Scofield

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

97%

Critics Consensus: 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 answers.

Reviews

Sacramento Bee

Joe Baltake

Robert Redford's soft-spoken, intelligent but never less than entertaining movie reminds us of exactly what we've been missing -- a story that seems utterly fresh and a filmmaking style best described as civilized.

The movie hums, purrs and shines. But it's also full of contradictions. A big budget picture about mass media fakery that's somewhat rigged itself, a docudrama that stretches the facts, an exposé on class prejudice that almost succumbs to [that] vice.

Fiennes' ability to project the pain behind a well-mannered facade, to turn intellectual and emotional agony into a real and living thing, is devastating. Impressive as the film is... Quiz Show would have been a very different experience without him.

For all of its occasional naiveté, this is a movie that practices what it preaches: It's a fine, worthy film, devoid of pandering or commercial compromise, that allows a number of talented people do some very good work.

A class act -- a big, important film, more relevant than ever, questioning the ways art and information and truth are rejiggered by TV as it increasingly blurs the line between news and entertainment.

February 13, 2024

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