“Quiz Show” quotes

(1994)

Robert Redford directed this movie in 1994

Title Quiz Show
Year 1994
Director Robert Redford
Genre Drama, History

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Plot – New York, 1958. 'Twenty-One' is a very successful NBC TV quiz, sponsored by a well-known pharmaceutical company. For weeks, its undisputed champion is Herbie Stempel, an average Brooklyn man of Jewish origin, but the polls show him decreasing in popularity and Dan, the organizer, tells him to answer the final question wrong. The new champion is Charles Van Doren, a young university professor, a typical "wasp", who soon becomes the new TV idol. Herbie does not accept the defeat and decides to sue the TV show. The appeal gets covered up, but the case attracts the attention of a young attorney, Richard Goodwin.

All actors – John Turturro, Rob Morrow, Ralph Fiennes, Paul Scofield, David Paymer, Hank Azaria, Christopher McDonald, Johann Carlo, Elizabeth Wilson, Allan Rich, Mira Sorvino, George Martin

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“- Mark Van Doren: Charlie, from what I understand, it's just a bunch of frauds showing off an erudition they really didn't have. All you have to do is...
- Charles Van Doren: The problem is, Dad, that it seems I was one of those frauds.”
Paul Scofield - Mark Van Doren
Ralph Fiennes - Charles Van Doren
[Tag:cheating, knowledge, television]
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“- Dick Goodwin: You know, money isn't everything.
- Sandra Goodwin: I'm not the one who came home with a Chrysler catalogue.”
Rob Morrow - Dick Goodwin
Mira Sorvino - Sandra Goodwin
[Tag:cars, money, wealth]

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