Pawn Sacrifice
Clicks along with crisp efficiency. Zwick...is old-school in his attention to craftsmanship, alive to telling details.
Pawn Sacrifice
In a gripping true story set during the height of the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer (Tobey Maguire) finds himself caught between two superpowers when he challenges the Soviet Empire. Also starring Liev Schreiber and Peter Sarsgaard, Pawn Sacrifice chronicles Fischer's terrifying struggles with genius and madness, and the rise and fall of a kid from Brooklyn who captured the imagination of the world.
Genre
Drama,
Bio-pic
Runtime
116
Language
English
Director
Edward Zwick
Cast
Tobey Maguire,
Peter Sarsgaard,
Michael Stuhlbarg,
Robin Weigert
FEATURED REVIEW
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News
The challenge of “Pawn Sacrifice” was to capture the colorful Cold War ’70s, the inner strategies of one man’s paranoid mind and make chess cinematic. Check, and mate. Tobey Maguire stars as Bobby Fischer, the Chicago-born, Brooklyn-raised chess prodigy. His passion for the game led to his becoming ...
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