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Pawn Sacrifice is an American biographical drama film directed by Edward Zwick, shot in black-and-white by cinematographer Bradford Young and edited by Steven Rosenblum, with a screenplay by Steven Knight, Stephen J. Rivele and Christopher Wilkinson and a score by James Newton Howard. Produced by Tobey Maguire, it stars Liev Schreiber, Lily Rabe, Michael Stuhlbarg and Peter Sarsgaard, and deals with the Cold War in a story set in Iceland.
Filmed in Montreal, Los Angeles and Reykjavík, and made in English and Russian, the film had a budget of $19,000,000 and earned $5,578,519.
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6.7During the height of the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers when he challenges the Soviet Empire.
Cast
- Tobey Maguire as Bobby Fischer
- Peter Sarsgaard as Father Bill Lombardy
- Liev Schreiber as Boris Spassky
- Michael Stuhlbarg as Paul Marshall
- Lily Rabe as Joan Fischer
- Sophie Nélisse as Young Joan
Themes
- chess
- cold war
- 1970s
- victory
- biography
- chess champion
- chess tournament
- reykjavík, iceland
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Edward Zwick
- Screenplay by
- Steven Knight
- Story by
- Steven Knight Stephen J. Rivele Christopher Wilkinson
- Produced by
- Gail Katz Tobey Maguire Edward Zwick
- Starring
- Tobey Maguire Peter Sarsgaard Liev Schreiber Michael Stuhlbarg Lily Rabe Robin Weigert
- Cinematography
- Bradford Young
- Edited by
- Steven Rosenblum
- Music by
- James Newton Howard
- Production companies
- Gail Katz Productions MICA Entertainment Material Pictures PalmStar Media
- Distributed by
- Bleecker Street (United States and Canada) Lionsgate (International)
- Release dates
- September 11, 2014 ( 2014-09-11 ) ( TIFF ) September 16, 2015 ( 2015-09-16 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 115 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $19 million
- Box office
- $5.6 million
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- Russian
- Main subject
- Cold War
- Director
- Edward Zwick
- Screenwriter
- Christopher Wilkinson
- Composer
- James Newton Howard
- Producer
- Tobey Maguire
- Cinematographer
- Bradford Young
- Narrative location
- Iceland
- Filming location
- Reykjavík
- Duration
- 115
- FilmAffinity ID
- 808267
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Official website
- www.pawnsacrifice.com
- Image
- Bobby Fischer 1972.jpg
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- publication date
- 2016-02-04
- title
- Pawn Sacrifice
- film editor
- Steven Rosenblum
- color
- black-and-white
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 65/100
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Encyclopedic overview
Pawn Sacrifice is a 2014 American biographical psychological drama film about Bobby Fischer, a chess grandmaster and the eleventh world champion. It follows Fischer's challenge against top Soviet chess grandmasters during the Cold War and culminating in the World Chess Championship 1972 match versus Boris Spassky in Reykjavík, Iceland. It was directed by Edward Zwick and written by Steven Knight, and stars Tobey Maguire as Fischer, Liev Schreiber as Spassky, Lily Rabe as Joan Fischer, and Peter Sarsgaard as William Lombardy. It was released in the United States on September 16, 2015.
The film received generally positive reviews, with many critics praising Maguire's performance, but grossed only $5 million worldwide against a budget of $19 million.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pawn Sacrifice” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.