Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)


A prepubescent chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer.

Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)

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Released Year: 1993
Runtime: 110 minutes
Genre: Biography, Drama
Directors: Steven Zaillian

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A prepubescent chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer.

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100
Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert
A film of remarkable sensitivity and insight.
100
Rolling Stone - Peter Travers
A riveting screen adventure.
100
Los Angeles Times - Kenneth Turan
Writer-director Steven Zaillian proves as much of a prodigy as his chess-playing subject, turning out a film that is a beautifully calibrated model of honestly sentimental filmmaking, made with delicacy, restraint and unmistakable emotional power. The feelings it goes for are almost never the easy or obvious ones, and the levers it presses are all the more effective because of that.
100
Chicago Reader - Jonathan Rosenbaum
One of the craftiest and most satisfying pieces about gender politics to come along in ages.
90
The New York Times - Janet Maslin
Even though this film may do for chess what "The Red Shoes" did for ballet, it works movingly and most effectively as a family drama.

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A prepubescent chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer.

A prepubescent chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer.

A prepubescent chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer.

A prepubescent chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer.