Quiz Show (1994)

Regisseur:

Robert Redford

Drehbuchautoren (WGA):

Richard N. Goodwin (book)
Paul Attanasio (screenplay)

Premierendatum:

14. September 1994 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Historienfilm

Werbezeile:

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.

Plot Keywords:

Prize Money | Game Show | Fraud | Perspiration | Trivia

Filmpreise:

Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 10 nominations

Nutzerkommentare:

The End of Innocence

Besetzung

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

Alternativ:

Quiz Show (Österreich) [de]
Quiz Show - Der Skandal (Deutschland) [de]

Länge:

133 Min

Produktionsland:

USA

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Farbe

Seitenverhältnis:

1.37 : 1

Tonverfahren:

Dolby

Altersfreigabe:

South Korea:15 | USA:PG-13 (certificate no. 32957) | Iceland:L | Netherlands:AL | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Chile:14 | Finland:S | Germany:6 (w) | Singapore:PG | Spain:T | Sweden:Btl | UK:15

Drehorte:

Bronx, New York City, New York, USA

Firma:

Baltimore Pictures

Dies und das:

Tim Robbins was originally going to play Charles Van Doren.

Pannen:

Abfolgefehler: The address written on Goodwin's legal pad does not match the street address when they visit.

Dialogzitate:

Herbie Stemple: You wanna be worshipped? Go to India and moo.

Bezüge zu anderen Titeln:

Wird parodiert in "Saturday Night Live: John Turturro/Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers (#20.6)" (1994)

Soundtrack:

DANCING IN THE DARK

The End of Innocence

As a twelve year old growing up in Brooklyn, I did not even know the name of the show I was watching every week; to me it was just a vehicle to see if hero Charles Van Doren could hang in. He was handsome, articulate, witty, and all the girls thought him incredibly attractive (although their pre-teen minds did not yet understand sexuality). Growing up in a Jewish neighborhood as I did, Herb Stempel did not come off so nerdy as he looks now in retrospect. When it came out that everyone had cheated, us kids felt not only betrayed, but sleazily cheated personally. The girls felt somehow violated!

Here Redford turns in an understated masterpiece. He sets the stage and the standard, and gets fantastic performances from his actors:

John Turturro as Stempel is excellent, but a fine job by Johann Carlo as his principled wife, which may be overlooked in such company, is the rock upon which his family can really rely.

Ralph Fiennes, as the hapless Charles Van Doren, manages to get across his character's dilemma: a mere achiever in a family of ultra-achievers. In any other family he'd have been prime, as a Van Doren he would always be an also-ran.

Many have pointed out the great job of Paul Scofield as Mark Van Doren, Charles' father. He is the epitome of the WASP-intellectual padrone. And he has our sympathy when his son so sorely disappoints him and disgraces the family.

David Paymer is excellent and believable as Enright, the unsavory producer. He makes it almost seem disloyal not to cheat!

Bit parts are all little plums: Martin Scorsese as Martin Rittenhouse, the Geritol exec, smugly contemptuous of the public and the government. George Martin as the network president, clearly Jewish, and just as clearly a "Teflon Don" in his own world.

The scenes at the Van Doren estate are designed to convey investigator Goodwin's (Rob Morrow) culture shock and outsider status, and they represent the academic WASP world of the time accurately and wonderfully.

All in all, a great movie.