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Pawn Sacrifice

Brooklyn-born Bobby Fischer becomes the most famous chess player in the world, faces off with Soviet champion Boris Spassky, and descends into paranoia.

Pawn Sacrifice
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Cast:

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

Director:
Edward Zwick

Producer:
Edward Zwick, Gail Katz, Tobey Maguire

Written by:
Steven Knight (screenplay and story), Stephen J. Rivele (story), Christopher Wilkinson (story)

Distributor:
Bleecker Street

Metacritic Score:
70

Rotten Tomatoes Score:
78%

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