Based on true events: In 1972 American chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer (Tobey Maguire) challenges the Soviet grandmaster Boris Spassky (Liev Schreiber) to a chess championship and he captivates the media with his intensity and paranoia as chess becomes a proxy for Cold War politics. Also with Peter Sarsgaard, Michael Stuhlbarg, Lily Rabe and Robin Weigert. Directed by Edward Zwick. Several lines of dialogue are in Russian without translation. [1:56 . . .
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