Quiz Show
“Fifty million people watched, but no one saw a thing.”
Herbert Stempel's transformation into an unexpected television personality unfolds as he secures victory on the cherished American game show, 'Twenty-One.' However, when the show introduces the highly skilled contestant Charles Van Doren to replace Stempel, it compels Stempel to let out his frustrations and call out the show as rigged. Lawyer Richard Goodwin steps in and attempts to uncover the orchestrated deception behind the scenes.
Genres
History, Drama
Studio
Baltimore Pictures
Language
en
Status
Released
How Quiz Show performed
Budget
$31.0M
Worldwide Gross
$24.8M
Gross Profit
−$6.2M
Return
0.8× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$4M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~50/50, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (35% of the domestic run, typical for History) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Herb Stempel
John Turturro
Herb Stempel
Dick Goodwin
Rob Morrow
Dick Goodwin
Charles Van Doren
Ralph Fiennes
Charles Van Doren
Mark Van Doren
Paul Scofield
Mark Van Doren
Dan Enright
David Paymer
Dan Enright
Albert Freedman
Hank Azaria
Albert Freedman
Jack Barry
Christopher McDonald
Jack Barry
Toby Stempel
Johann Carlo
Toby Stempel
Dorothy Van Doren
Elizabeth Wilson
Dorothy Van Doren
Robert Kintner
Allan Rich
Robert Kintner
Sandra Goodwin
Mira Sorvino
Sandra Goodwin
Chairman
George Martin
Chairman
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