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14 September 1994 (USA)
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Fifty million people watched, but no one saw a thing.
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Dick Goodwin discovers game shows are fixed: pretty boy WASP Charles Van Doren is fed answers so he beats geeky Jew Herbie Stempel. full summary | add synopsis
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Nominated for 4 Oscars.
Another 4 wins
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10 nominations
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The End of Innocence
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | John Turturro | ... | Herbie Stempel |
 | Rob Morrow | ... | Dick Goodwin |
 | Ralph Fiennes | ... | Charles Van Doren |
 | Paul Scofield | ... | Mark Van Doren |
 | David Paymer | ... | Dan Enright |
 | Hank Azaria | ... | Albert Freedman |
 | Christopher McDonald | ... | Jack Barry |
 | Johann Carlo | ... | Toby Stempel |
| Elizabeth Wilson | ... | Dorothy Van Doren |
 | Allan Rich | ... | Robert Kintner |
 | Mira Sorvino | ... | Sandra Goodwin |
| George Martin | ... | Chairman |
| Paul Guilfoyle | ... | Lishman |
 | Griffin Dunne | ... | Account Guy |
 | Michael Mantell | ... | Pennebaker |
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133 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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USA:PG-13 (certificate no. 32957) |
Netherlands:AL |
Iceland:L |
South Korea:15 |
Philippines:PG-13 |
Argentina:13 |
Australia:M |
Chile:14 |
Finland:S |
Germany:6 (w) |
Singapore:PG |
Spain:T |
Sweden:Btl |
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The charcoal drawing of Mark Van Doren seen hanging in the Van Doren home is that of the real Mark Van Doren, not Paul Scofield who portrayed him in the film.
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Anachronisms: The call letters on the TV cameras are WNBT. New York's NBC affiliate changed its call letters from WNBT to WRCA in 1954, 3 years before the Van Doren streak.
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Mark Van Doren:
If you look around the table and you can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.
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Referenced in "Saturday Night Live: Bob Saget/TLC (#20.19)" (1995)
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MACK THE KNIFE
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As a twelve year old growing up in Brooklyn, I did not even know the name of the show I was watching every week; to me it was just a vehicle to see if hero Charles Van Doren could hang in. He was handsome, articulate, witty, and all the girls thought him incredibly attractive (although their pre-teen minds did not yet understand sexuality). Growing up in a Jewish neighborhood as I did, Herb Stempel did not come off so nerdy as he looks now in retrospect. When it came out that everyone had cheated, us kids felt not only betrayed, but sleazily cheated personally. The girls felt somehow violated!
Here Redford turns in an understated masterpiece. He sets the stage and the standard, and gets fantastic performances from his actors:
John Turturro as Stempel is excellent, but a fine job by Johann Carlo as his principled wife, which may be overlooked in such company, is the rock upon which his family can really rely.
Ralph Fiennes, as the hapless Charles Van Doren, manages to get across his character's dilemma: a mere achiever in a family of ultra-achievers. In any other family he'd have been prime, as a Van Doren he would always be an also-ran.
Many have pointed out the great job of Paul Scofield as Mark Van Doren, Charles' father. He is the epitome of the WASP-intellectual padrone. And he has our sympathy when his son so sorely disappoints him and disgraces the family.
David Paymer is excellent and believable as Enright, the unsavory producer. He makes it almost seem disloyal not to cheat!
Bit parts are all little plums: Martin Scorsese as Martin Rittenhouse, the Geritol exec, smugly contemptuous of the public and the government. George Martin as the network president, clearly Jewish, and just as clearly a "Teflon Don" in his own world.
The scenes at the Van Doren estate are designed to convey investigator Goodwin's (Rob Morrow) culture shock and outsider status, and they represent the academic WASP world of the time accurately and wonderfully.
All in all, a great movie.