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Pawn Sacrifice
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During the Cold War, the man named Bobbie Fischer, a skillful chess player, finds himself facing two great powers. Bobbie began to enter the biggest challenge in the game he excelled in when he challenged the Soviet empire and the greatest Soviet player, Boris Spassky, at the 1972 World Chess Championships. It was a tournament that was a real history and a big challenge for Fischer.
During the Cold War, the man named Bobbie Fischer, a skillful chess player, finds himself facing two great powers. Bobbie began to enter the biggest challenge in the game he excelled in when he challenged the Soviet empire and the greatest Soviet player, Boris Spassky, at the 1972 World Chess Championships. It was a tournament that was a real history and a big challenge for Fischer.
Actors:
Richard Jutras,
Sophie NĂ©lisse,
Carlo Mestroni,
Shawn Campbell,
Liev Schreiber,
Brent Skagford,
Lydia Zadel,
Igor Ovadis,
Andreas Apergis,
David Pryde,
Dick Cavett,
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Richard Jutras
Sophie NĂ©lisse
27 March 2000, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Carlo Mestroni
Shawn Campbell
Liev Schreiber
4 October 1967, San Francisco, California, USA
Brent Skagford
Lydia Zadel
7 December 1983, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Igor Ovadis
25 May 1952
Andreas Apergis
David Pryde
Dick Cavett
19 November 1936, Gibbon, Nebraska, USA
Director:
Edward Zwick
Edward Zwick
8 October 1952, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Country:
United States
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April 16, 2016
Its desire to tell a small part of a historical firebrand's story is undermined by its reluctance - or inability - to get inside his mind.
September 25, 2015
Fine-looking but safe ...
September 23, 2015
Features a showboat performance from Tobey Maguire as the increasingly disturbed Fischer, along with a more composed one from Liev Schreiber as the taciturn Spassky.
May 03, 2016
'Pawn Sacrifice' takes all of those tropes and cranks them up to 11, far past the barometers of either believable human behavior or credible filmmaking.
August 29, 2016
There's no better metaphor for the film's plot than this sport. [Full review in Spanish]
October 14, 2015
Like all of Zwick's works, it's perfectly watchable fare, but it's often infuriating for its refusal to dig deeper into its incredibly compelling subject.
September 24, 2015
Despite his best emoting, Maguire ultimately comes across as Peter Parker with a mole and a bad haircut.
May 24, 2016
[Zwick] makes the historic matches come to life, such that even non-players will appreciate the gripping excitement and intellectual rigour to be found in the battle of wits that is chess.
September 24, 2015
Archived news reports and a Dick Cavett interview fit seamlessly into the dramatic recreations, as do era-specific rock tunes.
August 12, 2016
A film that works because of the great performances by the two leads. [Full review in Spanish]
September 24, 2015
Genius is fascinating, particularly when it is complicated, as it always seems to be.