Directed by: Robert Redford
Starring: Hank Azaria, John Turturro, Mira Sorvino, Paul Scofield, Ralph Fiennes, Rob Morrow
Albert Freedman: It's not like we're hardened criminals here. We're in show business.
Herbie Stemple: You wanna be worshipped? Go to India and moo.
Herbie Stemple: Come and see Herbie Stempel get thrown to the Columbia lions! Watch Charles Van Doren eat his first kosher meal in his life.
Factual error: In the scene where Charles Van Doren appears on the Today show, it's quite obvious that the studio's location is the same as the modern-day street level studio used by the show ("Studio 1A"). However, during the period the movie took place, the Today show was in a studio further down the street, closer to the iconic NBC marquee, in the space presently occupied by Christie's auction house.
Trivia: In the film, Herb Stempel loses to Charles Van Doren by incorrectly answering On the Waterfront as the 1955 Best Picture winner. While this was one of the questions asked, it was not the question Stempel lost on.
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