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Dramatizando os escândalos do quiz show Twenty-One da década de 1950, adapta as memórias de Richard N. Goodwin, um advogado do Congresso dos EUA que investigou as acusações de manipulação de resultados pelos produtores do programa... Adorável adaptação, muito cativante, comovente e até revoltante, os responsáveis pela fraude no fim terminaram milionários, os dono e patrocinador nada sofreram e os participantes marcados para o resto de suas vidas, injustiça imperou...

This one does something very rare: take a relatively uninteresting topic, and through incredible writing, acting and directing, make it an absolute THRILLER. If it comes available to you, see it. You’ll not regret it.

God I love Ralph and the character he plays in such a sympathetic way. I desperately want to eat corn on the cob and tomato salad at the Van Doren Connecticut home. Also a performance by Martin Scorsese, Ethan Hawke cameo, and directed by Robert Redford???? Overall great performances and building of drama while being understated, with biting commentary on corruption, morality, privilege, the lure of fame, and society during the television-as-truth era. Didn’t realize it was based on a true story but not surprised.

Great movie excellent performances. Wouldn't expect less from a Robert Redford Movie

This scandal shocked people all over the airwaves and on national television! A contestant on a quiz show learns that he is given the answers in advance to the question, putting his morals into question as an investigation into the station leads to him making a decision of right or wrong. This retelling of the infamous "Twenty-One" quiz show scandal, we are forced to rethink everything we know about ourselves and what we would do in that situation!

Solid movie with a great cast. Bit over the top but enjoyable.

Easily Redford's best directorial effort. I like that the movie teases a triumphant ending only to ultimately deliver a total bummer. Great work from Fiennes here as you get the sense that this character could easily sleepwalk into more morally compromising situations.

A historic moment in television history faithfully told.

With the whole world watching, how far will people go to hide a lie? Quiz Show does a great job of addressing this question while presenting the events of the Twenty-One scandal. This film is elegant and sophisticated, though a bit dry at times. I was intrigued by each character and genuinely cared about the outcome. Overall, I thought that the movie was one-note, a good note, but still monotonous. Additional Comment: Tom Riddle would have been a good looking man if he kept his nose and hair!

As much a historical event retelling as it's a case study on entertainment and intellectual prostitution. The pacing in this is flawless as it builds layers onto itself with personal drama, a engaging story, and makes you think about what's right and just because you can does it mean you should. This is a masterfully edited film as well that weaves effortlessly between the three characters and never feels unfocused without losing sight of the bigger picture being told which is quite an accomplishment. The cinematography is phenomenal with great lighting, camerawork, and memorable scenes. The acting is phenomenal as well across the board with great chemistry and charm. The only complaint is the music is decent but is underused significantly in this and not that memorable. But everything else is so flawless that it doesn't detract at all from this All Time Classic. Everyone should give this a watch once.

In 1958, the questions and answers to be used for the latest broadcast of NBC's popular quiz show Twenty-One are transported from a secure bank vault to the studio. The evening's main attraction is Queens resident Herb Stempel (John Turturro), the reigning champion, who correctly answers question after question. Eventually, both the network and the program's corporate sponsor, the supplementary tonic Geritol, begin to fear that Stempel's approval ratings are beginning to level out, and decide that the show would benefit from new talent. Producers Dan Enright and Albert Freedman are surprised when Columbia University instructor Charles Van Doren (Ralph Fiennes), son of a prominent literary family, visits their office to audition for a different, less difficult show by the same producers, Tic-Tac-Dough. Realizing that they have found an ideal challenger for Stempel, they offer to ask the same questions during the show which Van Doren correctly answered during his audition. He refuses, but when he comes within reach of a game-winning 21 points on the show, he is asked one of the questions from his audition. After a moment of moral indecision, he gives the correct answer. Stempel deliberately misses an easy question and loses, having been promised a future in television if he does so. In the weeks that follow, Van Doren's winning streak makes him a national celebrity, but he reluctantly buckles under the pressure and allows Enright and Freedman to start giving him the answers. Meanwhile, Stempel, having lost his prize money to an unscrupulous bookie, begins threatening legal action against NBC after weeks go by without his return to television. He visits New York County District Attorney Frank Hogan, who convenes a grand jury to look into his allegations. Richard Goodwi (Rob Morrow ), a young Congressional lawyer, learns that the grand jury findings have been sealed and travels to New York City to investigate rumors of rigged quiz shows. Visiting a number of contestants, including Stempel and Van Doren, he begins to suspect that Twenty-One is a fixed operation... Rotten Tomatoes consensus states: "Robert Redford refracts the sociopolitical and moral issues posed by the subject material through a purely entertaining, well-acted lens." Film critic Roger Ebert gave the film 3½ stars out of four, calling the screenplay "smart, subtle and ruthless." Web critic James Berardinelli praised the "superb performances by Fiennes", and said "John Turturro is exceptional as the uncharismatic Herbie Stempel." Writing for Entertainment Weekly, Owen Gleiberman highlighted the supporting performance of Paul Scofield as Mark Van Doren, stating that "it's in the relationship between the two Van Dorens that Quiz Show finds its soul." Kenneth Turan called Scofield's performance his best since A Man for All Seasons (1966), and suggested the film "would have been a very different experience" without Fiennes' "ability to project the pain behind a well-mannered facade, to turn intellectual and emotional agony into a real and living thing. However, he also was a bit more critical towards the exaggerated performances of Turturro and Morrow. Charles Van Doren said, "I understand that movies need to compress and conflate, but what bothered me most was the epilogue stating that I never taught again. I didn't stop teaching, although it was a long time before I taught again in a college. I did enjoy John Turturro's version of Stempel. And I couldn't help but laugh when Stempel referred to me in the film as 'Charles Van Fucking Moron.'" (via Wikipedia) This Robert Redford dramatization of the Twenty-One quiz show scandals of the 1950s, adapts the memoirs of Richard N. Goodwin, a U.S. Congressional lawyer who investigated the accusations of game-fixing by show producers. The film have a solid ensemble cast with John Turturro as Herb Stempel, Rob Morrow as Richard N. Goodwin and Ralph Fiennes as Charles Van Doren and it´s a well made picture showing how tv manipulated its audience in the late 50s. However, the film doesn´t carry any real high or lows, it´s more of a steady flow that never really excites you. Trivia: The film received generally positive reviews and was nominated for several awards, including a Best Picture Oscar nomination and several Golden Globe Awards.

Robert Redford directed a cast ensemble of brilliant actors whose solid performances carried out his vision to the best result. Quiz Show is an interesting examination of morality and conscience that is as relevant today as it was at the turn of the century. Ralph Fiennes did an exceptional job portraying the handsome and charming yet flawed Charles Van Doren, for he brought a sense of sincerity to him that made it effortless for the audience to sympathize, if not resonate with his character. From a narrative standpoint, the film is fantastic and brings its fact-based story to a satisfying ending.

A boring, 2+ hour slow burn of a slog with no payoff.

It's a very well produced and very well acted film but the plot isn't overly captivating. I enjoyed it because of the performances and the polished production though and think it's worth a watch.

Based on true story at the same time entertaining. Still relevant today. It's not being like the greatest film, but direction/casting/cinematography all well-made, I can recommend for any people.

This is a film that tells an interesting story. I gather its based on a true story and thats what appealed to me about it. I know we've had a scandal here in the UK about rigged quiz games on 온라인카지노추천 but this was obviously decades before the one I'm thinking of and I was curious how the press and the relevant characters were treated and dealt with the situation at hand. As with most films, it's a bit slow to build the plot but I thought the social commentary side of it was quite intriguing, with looks being promoted over assumed intelligence (regarding hopes of gaining raings etc.). I thought it was a well made film which tells an interesting story, even though there are moments which seemed perhaps a little overly/unnecessarily cheesy. The underlying themes were interesting enough to keep me watching. I thought the performances by Ralph Fiennes and John Turturro were pretty decent. There are some good quotes too, the one that stood out for me, mentioned I think for a 2nd time, right at the end of the film, being 'Give the public what they want'.

I'm not sure where I should aim my critique, for who or what is the most responsible party for this self infatuated try hard of a film. Don't get me wrong though, a part of me enjoyed that exact aspect of what I was watching in Redford's take of the book (of which I've never before read mind you.) If the best part falls solely upon the talents actors that you've seen so much of already this last decade, then perhaps there IS actual genius to this film. There is a certain kind of self criticism and humility that occurs here for the television industry, one that deserves larger attention. As our films have captured us more deeply than ever before, it grows more engrossing each and every day. Television is our life. Who would disagree? I do not recommend this film for it's efforts for telling a story with beauty, passion, creativity, humanism. I simply wouldn't. This is not a creative work of art but a very light and early piece to the puzzle, which is all around us and through all systems. Corruption, cronyism, lack if humility, lack of truth. The grand facade, and the grand game of life, which is all just a show. A frightfuly convoluted reality. Thank you Redford, for highlighting the errors in our collectively agreed upon reality. At least THIS MUCH we should be investigating and thinking deeper than what we are told. It IS about education and the very way we live. Are the answers being given to you? Is your reality really your very own?

What a grand way to turn a book based on a true story into a movie. An already-gripping story, it is rendered impeccable in this suspense-loaded movie as it scrutinizes what happened on Twenty One through outstanding performances and great direction by Robert Redford.

John Turturro's character is worried about taking a dive on a quiz show and how it will affect his career, while John Turturro humself should have been worried about playing the manic, nervous guy too well in this movie and shoehorning himself into an archetype for half of his career on the big screen. A star-studded ensemble delivering an account of a scandal that seems relatively low-risk on the surface - network producers fixing the results of a trivia competition - but which is ultimately revealed to be about much more, particularly the unholy union of media with commercial interests, class conflict and a lack of mobility (even in the supposedly idyllic 1950s), and what George Carlin called the "big club", the good ol' boys that play golf together on the weekends. The film contrasts the responses of individual characters to those born into status and recognition (Fiennes' Charles Van Doren) and those without it (Turturro's Herb Stempel, also highlighting a WASP vs. Jewish angle). While well-made and thematically sharp, my biggest gripe with Quiz Show is that it doesn't necessarily shine as an investigational thriller as brightly as it could, nor does it feel like as chilling of an indictment as it really should be given how relevant its messaging remains today. The stakes never feel high, even as characters overtly reference the importance of 온라인카지노추천 and personal image in the American media landscape. Overall solid and well-made, but could have used more bite and vitriol. (3/5)