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Mood:
- TouchingUpliftingCleverContemplative
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Plot:
- ProdigyContests and CompetitionsParents and ChildrenMind and SoulYouthFamily RelationsPower RelationsComing of Age more...
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Genres:
- DramaIndependent
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century90s
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Place:
- USA
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- Award WinnerCritically AcclaimedMasterpiece
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- Based on BookBased on True Story
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- SeriousRealisticSlow
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Searching for Bobby Fischer, 1993
English
USA
Profile of Searching for Bobby Fischer
Searching for Bobby Fischer can be described as uplifting, touching, and clever. The plot revolves around a prodigy, contests and competitions, and power relations. The main genres are drama and independent. In approach, Searching for Bobby Fischer is serious and realistic. The storytelling is slow paced. It is located in the USA. Searching for Bobby Fischer takes place in the 1990s. It is originally a true story and based on a book. The movie has received attention for being a masterpiece, an award winner, and critically acclaimed.
Summary of Searching for Bobby Fischer
Though he's only seven, Josh looks at a chessboard and anticipates moves that mature chess players don't even see. He's a malleable young boy with an incredible talent for the game of masterminds. When Josh begins honing his talent, playing a speedy version of the game called "blitz" with hustlers and hobos, his father decides to take him to world reknowned coach Bruce Pandolfini, who claims Josh may well be the second coming of chess legend Bobby Fischer. But family struggles ensue when the mother worries that in cultivating the genius, they may be hurting the child.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 11 August 1993 |
| Runtime: | 110 min |
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as Fred Waitzkin
as Vinnie
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