During the height of the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers when he challenges the Soviet Empire.
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as Bobby Fischer
as Father Bill Lombardy
as Boris Spassky
as Paul Marshall
as Joan Fischer
as Young Joan
as Teen Bobby Fischer
as Carmine Nigro
as Young Bobby Fischer
as Donna
Reno
Sep 29, 2016
**With this 'Searching for Bobby Fischer' is over for me.** I know Bobby Fischer a genius American chess player, in fact, after watching the 'Searching for Bobby Fischer', which is another biopic as this one. Other than that I know nothing about his life, so I'm very thankful for this film. From the director of many sensational flicks comes this…
CinemaSerf
Jun 14, 2025
This could have been a fascinating account of the troubled life of American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer - unfortunately, Tobey Maguire just couldn't quite convince me that he was that man! The well documented life of this chess genius and of his many demons is the stuff of public record, but this interpretation borders on the melodramatic just a bi…
