Wordplay
by Patrick Creadon
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Actor: Al Sanders, Merl Reagle, Norman Payne, Tyler Hinman, Will ShortzDirector: Patrick Creadon
Brand: WELLSPRING/GENIUS
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 85 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-11-07
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Ifc
Movie Reviews of Wordplay
Movie Review: Wonderful Film!
Summary: 5 Stars
I first saw this film on the big screen with my friend Jared Feldman in Washington, DC. We loved the movie and would often quote the film.
I recently re-watched the film, and found it as wonderful the second time. For a word dork like myself, it was a pleasure to watch.
-Jeremy Paul Gallagher
Summary of Wordplay
More than fifty million Americans do crossword puzzles each week and many of them gravitate towards the puzzle presented by the esteemed New York Times. This documentary provides a glimpse at how these language labyrinths are created.System Requirements:Run Time: 90 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre:?DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. Rating:?PG UPC:?796019796156 Manufacturer No:?79615The linguistic ballet of the crossword puzzle and the obsessive minds that wrestle with them are a source of delight in the charming documentary Wordplay. Though there's no story, the movie has a definite hero: Will Shortz, the editor of the New York Times crossword puzzle, universally acknowledged as the pinnacle of crosswords. Shortz comes across as clever but modest; though he's at the top of his particular world, he retains a bemused perspective on that world's limitations. Though speckled with celebrities from former President Bill Clinton to the Indigo Girls, the most engaging interviews are with puzzle creator Merl Reagle (who gives a fascinating on-screen demonstration of how he starts making a puzzle) and the witty and garrulous commentary by the former public editor for the Times, Daniel Okrent. Like many recent documentaries, Wordplay is built around a competition: The American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, an annual event started by Shortz and embraced by people who have devoted an alarming amount of their brain space to filling squares with letters. Though the movie is not as emotionally involving as Spellbound--still the ne plus ultra of nerdy documentaries--Wordplay's window into its particular subculture will be enjoyable to non-crossword fans as well as committed puzzleheads.--Bret Fetzer
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