Pawn Sacrifice
2014 film by Edward Zwick / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Pawn Sacrifice is a 2014 American biographical drama film about chess grandmaster and 11th world champion Bobby Fischer. It follows Fischer's challenge against top Soviet chess grandmasters during the Cold War and culminating in the World Chess Championship 1972 match versus Boris Spassky in Reykjavík, Iceland. It was directed by Edward Zwick and written by Steven Knight, and stars Tobey Maguire as Fischer, Liev Schreiber as Spassky, Lily Rabe as Joan Fischer, and Peter Sarsgaard as William Lombardy. It was released in the United States on September 16, 2015.[6]
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Directed by | Edward Zwick |
Screenplay by | Steven Knight |
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Cinematography | Bradford Young |
Edited by | Steven Rosenblum |
Music by | James Newton Howard |
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Running time | 115 minutes[3] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $19 million[4] |
Box office | $5.6 million[5] |
The film received generally positive reviews, with many critics praising Maguire's performance, but grossed only $5 million worldwide against a budget of $19 million.