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Pawn sacrifice / Bleecker Street presents in association with MICA Entertainment ; a Material Pictures production ; produced by Gail Katz, Toby Maguire, Eduard Zwick ; screenplay by Steven Knight ; directed by Edward Zwick.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 57174265 | UniversalLanguage: English Original language: English Subtitle language: English, Spanish Publisher: [United States] : Bleeker Street Media, [2015]Distributor: Universal City, CA : Universal Studios Home Entertainment, [2015]Description: 1 videodisc (1 hr., 56 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Production credits:
  • Director of photography, Bradford Young ; editor, Steven Rosenblum ; music, James Newton Howard.
Cast: Tobey Maguire, Peter Sarsgaard, Liev Schreiber, Michael Stuhlbarg, Lily Rabe, Robin Weigert.Summary: In a gripping true story set during the height of the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers when he challenges the Soviet Empire. It chronicles Fischer's terrifying struggles with genius and madness, and the rise and fall of a kid from Brooklyn who captured the imagination of the world.
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In a gripping true story set during the height of the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers when he challenges the Soviet Empire. It chronicles Fischer's terrifying struggles with genius and madness, and the rise and fall of a kid from Brooklyn who captured the imagination of the world.

DVD, NTSC, region 1; anamorphic widescreen (2.40:1) presentation; Dolby digital 5.1; dual layer.

English (Dolby digital 5.1), Spanish subtitles, English SDH (subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing).

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Tobey Maguire, Peter Sarsgaard, Liev Schreiber, Michael Stuhlbarg, Lily Rabe, Robin Weigert.

Director of photography, Bradford Young ; editor, Steven Rosenblum ; music, James Newton Howard.

DVD release of the 2014 motion picture.

Widescreen (2.40:1).

MPAA rating: PG-13; for brief strong language, some sexual content and historical smoking.

In a gripping true story set during the height of the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers when he challenges the Soviet Empire. It chronicles Fischer's terrifying struggles with genius and madness, and the rise and fall of a kid from Brooklyn who captured the imagination of the world.

Bonus features: Bobby Fischer, the Cold War and the match of the century.

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