Wordplay PG
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 34 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 7, 2006
- Originally Released: 2006
- Label: Ifc
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Will Shortz | |
Featured: | Mike Mussina, Jon Stewart, Bill Clinton, Ken Burns & Bob Dole | |
Directed by | Patrick Creadon | |
Music by | Vic Fleming & Peter Golub | |
Screenwriting by | Christine O'Malley | |
Produced by | Patrick Walsh |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/4 --
Boy, was I wrong. There's more palm-sweating suspense in one minute of this baby than in all of The Omen.
Rolling Stone
Rating: 7/10 --
If the movie emphasizes anything, it affirms that common-interest societies like this ... all survive by sharing the traits of community, devotion, and mutual dedication.
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ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Rating: 3/4 --
It manages to turn an internal, solitary activity into fodder for an engaging, even exciting movie.
Miami Herald
Rating: 4/5 --
A playful, informative and very sweet documentary about the world of words 'across' or 'down.'
Orlando Sentinel
4 stars out of 5 -- [B]right, concise and to the point. It's written in confident ink, not maybe or maybe-not pencil.
Box Office
[An] amiable braniacs-are-cool documentary... -- Grade: B
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: B+ --
Patrick Creadon's documentary about the New York Times crossword puzzle's creators and fans is a positively joyful movie that will appeal even to audiences who have little affinity for the mind-bending puzzles.
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ColeSmithey.com
Product Description:
Inky-fingered New York Times readers love the mind-bending crossword puzzles lovingly curated for the paper by longstanding contributor Will Shortz. There are few things more satisfying than completing one of Shortz's puzzles, and a cult has sprung up around the enigmatic crossword compiler as Times readers put pen to paper and attempt to pick his brains. Director Patrick Creadon has capitalized on this phenomenon with the film WORDPLAY, a genial documentary based on Shortz and his devoted followers. Creadon begins by tracing Shortz's unusual ascent to his tenure at the Times, creating a picture of an easygoing, well-liked, and respected man. Creadon also takes viewers on a trip to the 28th annual American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, a geek haven where Shortz assumes godlike status. Indeed, it was Shortz himself who created the contest, and he still presides over it, demonstrating a great deal of affection for the tournament and its participants. As we witness the various eccentrics battling it, some of Shortz's celebrity fans get plenty of camera time, THE DAILY SHOW's Jon Stewart and former president Bill Clinton among them. Clinton even recalls an amusing occasion when a particularly tricky election-day puzzle left readers wondering whether "Clinton" or "Bob Dole" was the seven-letter solution to one of Shortz's clues--in fact some clever juggling of letters meant that both answers could have been correct. An enjoyable movie that even manages to make the crossword tournament a gripping affair, WORDPLAY succeeds largely thanks to its immensely likeable central figure and the behavior of the kooky contestants at the tournament.
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- UPC: 796019796156
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