Title | : | Quiz Show |
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Release | : | 1994 |
Rating | : | 7.5 |
Language | : | English |
Runtime | : | 133 |
Genre | : | Action,Drama,History |
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.
Paul Attanasio (screenplay), Richard N. Goodwin (book)