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1 of 3 customers found the following review helpful:
happy shopper, 2007-01-05
favorite movie of a friend of mine. he loved it. easy ordering and receiving.
4 of 4 customers found the following review helpful:
Pursuing Excellence, 2006-09-10
As others have said this movie is indeed about family values, the price(s) one pays for winning and competition and dealing with devloping your child. Let us take all that as given - there are two other things that, to my mind are the core bedrock and are usually not mentioned in the review. But are in fact central in the script and the message.
The first is seeing beneath the surface of Chess to the emotional and intellectual endeavor it can be, at it's best. As Bruce Pandolfini puts it "Fischer got beneath the surface of the game line no one else before him". One doesn't need to understand chess, though it helps, to see that the passionate pursuit of great art is a moment of excellence.
The second is the prices necessary - which differ for us all. So few of us are truly excellent at much of anything, which is probably the reason we applaud those who are. Being able to create great art is a moment of transcendence and the movie shows us the exterior of this about as well as it can be done. But it also shows us how the single-minded pursuit of pure excellence at the price of all the other things that make us worthwhile people is a high price to pay.
It is these othere lessons that are at the heart of this movie and make it truly worthwhile as a great, long-lasting 'see-again' movie. For the whole family.
4 of 5 customers found the following review helpful:
Searching For Bobby Fischer, 2006-07-11
Excellent movie, very clear digial reproduction, in widescreen format. Acting performance was rated five stars. Plot and story, five stars. I especially liked the scene where the parents were fighting over allowing their son to continue in Chess competitions. Excellent purchase.
9 of 9 customers found the following review helpful:
'But I'm not Bobby Fischer' (recommended), 2006-03-28
From the title you might imagine a swarm of detectives combing the city looking for champion Bobby Fischer missing from a chess tournament. However, this is the story of a very gifted young boy named Josh Waitzkin who possesses an intuitive grasp of chess (and other games). Though SEARCHING FOR BOBBY FISCHER features chess, it's not about this game so much as it is about nurturing a child to grow into his own person. The mysterious disappearance of Bobby Fischer, world chess champion, did leave a void. But does this give family and coaches the right to demand that another child fill that vacancy? Can Josh continue to enjoy chess along with all the other things "normal" children do? Or is he destined to become part of a regimented chess-champion making machine?
A poignant point in the movie is made when Josh's coach angrily tells him his behavior is inconsistent with prior champion Bobby Fischer. The prodigy replies, "Well, I'm not him." This is a movie an entire family can enjoy together. The PG rating is earned from drug dealers and gamblers depicted in the park where people play chess.
Movie quote: "To put a child in a position to care about winning and not to prepare him is wrong."
3 of 4 customers found the following review helpful:
Fascinating, enthralling., 2006-03-28
Searching For Bobby Fischer is the best chess movie I've ever seen, and you don't have to know anything about chess to appreciate it.
If you're into sports movies or war movies, you'll find the competition every bit as absorbing, by the final tournament, as any movie. It's not actually about searching for the real Bobby Fischer, though the narrator does tell us quite a lot, as this story unfolds, about Fischer, his rise to championship, and his disappearance. But this story is about a seven-year-old boy who could become the new Bobby Fischer, if his teacher (Ben Kingsley), parents (Joe Montegna & Joan Allen), and friends (Laurence Fishburne, et al) can strike the right balance.
It's appropriate for the whole family, with the usual lessons about parental pressure to compete, and fascinating insight about competition, gamesmanship, and decency. The tremendous cast includes David Paymer, William H. Macey (Fargo), Austen Pendleton (Guarding Tess), Dan Hedaya (Joe Versus The Volcano), Anthony Heald and Josh Mostel.
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