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Pawn Sacrifice
2014
· Movie
· 115 min
C
MEANRANK
68/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2588
- IMDb #2258
- Google retired #2494
- Rotten Tomatoes #2495
- Metacritic #1975
- Letterboxd #2738
+8 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2542
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #2930
- Metacritic Critics #1954
- Metacritic Audience #2144
- Criticker #2043
- Kinopoisk #2545
- AlloCiné #1583
- Trakt #2743
Every rating
46–82
out of 100
The true story of American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer's rise to fame. The film focuses on his Cold War-era World Chess Championship match against Soviet grandmaster Boris Spassky in 1972. It explores the immense pressure Fischer faced and his deteriorating mental state as his genius and paranoia threatened to consume him.
Details
- Director
- Edward Zwick
- Studio
- Gail Katz Productions, PalmStar Media
- Released
- 16 September 2015
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 115 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $19.0M
- Box office
- $5.6M
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