
Quiz Show (1994)
7.5/10
133 min
1994
en
Action
Biography
Drama
History
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.—Tim Horrigan
Cast
Ralph Fiennes as Charles Van Doren William Fichtner as Stage Manager Ethan Hawke as Don Quixote Student Martin Scorsese as Martin Rittenhome