Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)
Directed by Steven Zaillian
A seven-year-old chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer.
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My knowledge of the man was always miniscule: a footnote to a 1980s film I watched religiously called Searching for Bobby Fischer.
Pawn Sacrifice lacks the humanity of the Steven Zaillian film, Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993).
"Searching for Bobby Fischer" may be the best look at what growing up with such incredible chess skill can do to a child's psyche.
Chess may not seem like a terribly dramatic sport, but Fischer's operatic life and the innovative, unwaveringly focused way he played the game has inspired several excellent films, including Steve Zaillian's underappreciated "Searching for Bobby Fischer" and Liz Garbus' completely fascinating documentary, "Bobby Fischer Against the World."
We've seen the pursuit of perfection personified in films like Searching for Bobby Fischer and The Natural, but in those films the excellence of seeker was placed right up front.
Screenwriter Steven Zaillian (“Schindler’s List,” “Searching for Bobby Fischer”), the go-to writer for microclimates of mood and nuance and man, adapted the book, and does he ever deliver.
Teaming up with director Gus Van Sant (Drugstore Cowboy, To Die For), the two have forged a fitfully engaging saintly-misfit fable glazed with Hollywood-therapeutic ''sensitivity'': It's Searching for Bobby Fischer meets Ordinary People as reimagined by Oliver Sacks.