The imitation game

Resource Information

The work The imitation game represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Jericho Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

The imitation game

Statement of responsibility

The Weinstein Company presents ; a Black Bear production ; a Bristol Automotive production ; produced by Nora Grossman, Ido Ostrowsky, Teddy Schwarzman ; written by Graham Moore ; directed by Morten Tyldum

Contributor

• Strong, Mark, 1963-
• Tyldum, Morten
• Knightley, Keira, 1985-
• Dance, Charles
• Goode, Matthew, 1978-
• Hodges, Andrew
• Kinnear, Rory, 1978-
• Cumberbatch, Benedict, 1976-
• Leech, Allen
• Moore, Graham, 1981-

Actor

• Cumberbatch, Benedict, 1976-
• Strong, Mark, 1963-
• Leech, Allen
• Knightley, Keira, 1985-
• Kinnear, Rory, 1978-
• Goode, Matthew, 1978-
• Dance, Charles

Film director

• Tyldum, Morten

Screenwriter

• Moore, Graham, 1981-

Subject

• Gay men -- Great Britain -- Drama
• Historical films
• Historical films
• Mathematicians -- Great Britain -- Drama
• Thrillers (Motion pictures)
• Thrillers (Motion pictures)
• Turing, Alan Mathison, 1912-1954 -- Drama
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Cryptography -- Drama
• Biographical films
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Great Britain -- Drama
• Biographical films
• DVD-video discs
• Enigma cipher system -- Drama
• Feature films
• Feature films
• Film adaptations
• Film adaptations

Genre

• Historical films
• Film adaptations
• DVD-video discs
• Feature films
• Thrillers (Motion pictures)
• Drama
• Biographical films

Language

• eng
• spa
• eng
• spa
• eng
• eng

Summary

During the winter of 1952, British authorities entered the home of mathematician, cryptanalyst and war hero Alan Turing to investigate a reported burglary. They instead ended up arresting Turing himself on charges of "gross indecency," an accusation that would lead to his devastating conviction for the criminal offense of homosexuality - little did officials know, they were actually incriminating the pioneer of modern-day computing. Famously leading a motley group of scholars, linguists, chess champions and intelligence officers, he was credited with cracking the so-called unbreakable codes of Germany's World War II Enigma machine. An intense and haunting portrayal of a brilliant, complicated man, "The Imitation Game" a genius who under nail-biting pressure helped to shorten the war and, in turn, save thousands of lives

Cataloging source

• TEFMT
• Midwest

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Music, Alexandre Desplat ; film editor, William Goldenberg ; director of photography, Oscar Faura

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

MPAA Rating: PG-13; for some sexual references, mature thematic material and historical smoking

Language note

In English or dubbed Spanish; Spanish subtitles; English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH)

PerformerNote

Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Mark Strong, Rory Kinnear, Matthew Goode, Charles Dance, Allen Leech

Runtime

114

Technique

live action