Quiz Show

Quiz show is a very well made film about the scams which used to take place decades ago in the popular quiz shows. The story is interesting and the actors are quite good. Fiennes plays a professor from an intellectually well... Full review

An awesome movie. Excellent job on the storyline as well as what goes on behind the scenes before shows. This movie keeps you entirely on the edge of your seat!... Full review

This is a sorriest movie i have ever seen. It looks like a 5 yr old directed it. My retarted cousin could act better than them. DONT WASTE YOUR TIME OR MONEY ON IT. TRUST ME!!!!!!!!!!!!... Full review

"Quiz Show" is the type of movie that invites viewers to ask themselves how they would act under similar circumstances. If you were a contestant on a TV game show and the producers offered you a load of money to... Full review

I think 'Quiz Show' is probably the most underrated films of the 90s. It got it's kudos when it first came out, but now has more or less disapeared from memory. I'm not even sure if it's out of DVD. Despite... Full review

I was growing up during the Charles Van Doren scandal, and I remember his face on the front page of the paper and my mother crying. When I asked her what happened, she said, "He told a lie." He told... Full review

That TV-stations always have played a dubious role in the selection of their candidates isn't anything new. Only a couple of years ago there was a game show over here where some people weren't allowed because they weren't 'fit for... Full review

I once had a college professor who spent an entire semester trying to convince us, the naive students, that everything on television was fake. The news, the weather, the traffic, it was all a show, for our entertainment, to make money... Full review

Based on the book ’Remembering America: A Voice From The Sixties [1989] by Richard T. Goodwin, Quiz Show will receive the New York Film Critics award for Best Film. Academy Award wining director Robert Redford slow paced technique shows versatility and... Full review

A harsh look at a scandal that hit the TV industry while it was relatively still in its infancy, QUIZ SHOW tells the parallel stories of Herbie Stempel, Charles Van Doren, and Dick Goodwin, three people caught in a triangle... Full review

A drama of investigation, recrimination and humiliation.....John Turturro is intensely annoying and brilliant as the jilted contestant who exposes the scandal;....A tale of class and envy in a supposedly classless society.....and the incomparable Paul Scofield is maddeningly authoritative as the professor's learned father..... ... Full Review

The usual argument is that owning a superb film on DVD is so much better than on VHS. Interactive menus, the sound of wind whistling through a deserted town, a clock striking somewhere in the distance.Yes, its the one hundredth great film to be put on a DVD not worthy of being used as a shiny frisbee. ... Full Review

Robert Redford's exceptionally handsome and provocative ``Quiz Show'' manages a trick that few films even dare try -- to take a hard look at personal and public moral issues and still provide dazzling entertainment. Quiz Show,'' now available on home video, probes disturbing territory on the outskirts of the buttoned-down 1950s, focusing on the television quiz show scandals that -- we almost forgot -- rocked a nation into sudden skepticism. ... Full Review

As a pure period piece "Quiz Show" delivers beautifully, but Redford's foursquare, documentary-like approach, however artful, unspools a story with about as much drama as a game show itself. Indeed, it's not unlike making a retrospective film about cheating on a quiz show, especially one in which we don't get close enough to the characters to relate to the ethical issues at hand. ... Full Review

This is a beautifully crafted film. Van Doren knows what he is doing is wrong, but he likes the money he is getting on the show and he likes being suddenly more famous than his renowned father, Mark Van Doren (played by Paul Scofield). ... Full Review

As a jazz trumpeter turned Jack-of-all-sounds composer, Mark Isham's styles have ranged from big band ( QUIZ SHOW ) to the epically bucolic ( A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT ) and suspensefully pulsating action ( KISS THE GIRLS ). ... Full Article

When Darwin introduced the term, "survival of the fittest," he probably wasn't talking about this chick. She's definitely "fit," but still...Thinking is hard sometimes -- and after racking her brain last night "Deal or No Deal" model Katie Cleary told... ... Full Article

In 1994's "Quiz Show" - a dramatization of the 1956 scandal surrounding television's "Twenty-One" - director Robert Redford shows Herb Stempel (John Turturro) wracked over having to take a dive and throw his answer about which film won the Best... ... Full Article

"Have you seen the movie Quiz Show ? Remember the father of Charlie Van Doren - Mark Van Doren? Well, he was a poet in that era [1950s] and he wrote a post-war [poem] called Our Lady Peace. ... Full Article

In 1994, Robert Redford's underappreciated Quiz Show used TV game shows as a metaphor for the duplicity with which our system bolsters those who fit the "winner" profile. ... Full Article

As Sasha Stone notes at AwardsDaily.com , we awards buffs can rejoice now that cablecaster TCM has begun its annual "31 Days of Oscar." This year the movie channel has scheduled Oscar-winning and Oscar-nominated movies by the decade with Mondays... ... Full Article