Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Quiz Show. (film) Quiz Show is a 1994 American historical mystery - drama film [3][4] directed and produced by Robert Redford. Dramatizing the Twenty-One quiz show scandals of the 1950s, the screenplay by Paul Attanasio [5] adapts the memoirs of Richard N. Goodwin, a U.S. Congressional lawyer who investigated the accusations of game-fixing by ...
The Truman Show is a 1998 American psychological comedy drama film [4] written and co-produced by Andrew Niccol, and directed by Peter Weir.The film depicts the story of Truman Burbank (played by Jim Carrey), a man who is unaware that he is living his entire life on a colossal soundstage, and that it is being filmed and broadcast as a reality television show which has a huge international ...
1950s quiz show scandals. Host Jack Barry and contestant Charles Van Doren on the set of Twenty-One in 1957. NBC took the show off the air after the scandals made headlines; its production was dramatized in the 1994 film Quiz Show. The 1950s quiz show scandals were a series of scandals involving the producers and contestants of several popular ...
The Last Picture Show is a 1971 American coming-of-age drama film directed and co-written by Peter Bogdanovich, adapted from the semi-autobiographical 1966 novel of the same name by Larry McMurtry. The film's ensemble cast includes Timothy Bottoms , Jeff Bridges , Ellen Burstyn , Ben Johnson , Cloris Leachman , and Cybill Shepherd .
Clue is a 1985 American black comedy mystery film based on the board game of the same name.Directed by Jonathan Lynn, who co-wrote the script with John Landis, and produced by Debra Hill, it stars the ensemble cast of Eileen Brennan, Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn, Christopher Lloyd, Michael McKean, Martin Mull, and Lesley Ann Warren, with Colleen Camp and Lee Ving in supporting roles.
Quiz Lady is a 2023 American comedy film directed by Jessica Yu and written by Jen D'Angelo. The film stars Awkwafina, Sandra Oh, Jason Schwartzman, Holland Taylor, Tony Hale, Jon "Dumbfoundead" Park, and Will Ferrell. Ferrell, Awkwafina, and Oh also served as the film's producers, along with Jessica Elbaum, Maggie Haskins, Itay Reiss, and D ...
The movie isn’t nearly as concerned with whether or not Anne wins — although screenwriter Jen D’Angelo (“Hocus Pocus 2”) comes up with a pretty funny idea for the game’s charades-based ...
The Game is a 1997 American mystery thriller film [5] directed by David Fincher, starring Michael Douglas, Sean Penn, Deborah Kara Unger and James Rebhorn and produced by Propaganda Films and PolyGram Filmed Entertainment. It tells the story of a wealthy investment banker who is given a mysterious birthday gift by his brother—participation in ...