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Quiz Show

Quiz Show (1994)

Historical, Drama, Thriller, Mystery | United States

Director: Robert Redford

Where to watch

Streaming

23/02/2021

YouTube

11/10/2023

Rating: 7.5/10

User rating: 6.5/10
(13 votes)

SYNOPSIS

An idealistic young lawyer working for a Congressional subcommittee in the late 1950s discovers that TV quiz shows are being fixed. His investigation focuses on two contestants on the show "Twenty-One": Herbert Stempel, a brash working-class Jew from Queens, and Charles Van Doren, the patrician scion of one of America's leading literary families. Based on a true story.

Actors

Writer: Paul Attanasio, Richard N. Goodwin

Producer: Richard Dreyfuss, Richard N. Goodwin

RUNTIME: 133 min

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