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The Imitation Game (2014)

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During World War II, mathematician Alan Turing tries to crack the enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians.

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Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II. Written by Studio Canal

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The true enigma was the man who cracked the code See more »


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Rated PG-13 for some sexual references, mature thematic material and historical smoking | See all certifications »

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25 December 2014 (USA)  »

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El código enigma  »

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$14,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$479,352 (USA) (28 November 2014)

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$91,121,452 (USA) (8 May 2015)
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This movie was first released in cinemas predominantly in both 2014 and 2015, with the latter year featuring a number of other spy, espionage, intelligence, and secret agent movies, a couple of them also comedies. The movies include: Spy (2015), a Bond spoof, Spectre (2015), Sicario (2015), an FBI film, which has a title that is almost an anagram of Ian Fleming's "Risico" (1960), a James Bond short-story barring the letter "A", Survivor (2015), Black Mass (2015), another FBI film, Mortdecai (2015), which has an MI5 agent lead character, Queen of the Desert (2015), whose central character was a WWI attaché to the British Secret Service, the Bondian Furious 7 (2015), Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015), Bridge of Spies (2015), a Cold War espionage thriller, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015), in which Ian Fleming was an original co-creator of, MI-5 (2015), and even Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014), a Bondesque homage which was a 2014 film but was mostly widely theatrically released in 2015 and also featured Mark Strong. Also in theaters in 2015 from 2014 was The November Man (2014) and this film. First released in 2014 were 3 Days to Kill (2014) and Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014), which also starred Keira Knightley. See more »

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When Hugh and Joan get up to dance, Peter also gets up to dance, leaving Alan, John and Jack at the table. However, when Alan and John start to discuss Alan's doubts about marrying Joan, the camera angle switches, and Jack has disappeared from the table. See more »

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Alan Turing: Are you paying attention? Good. If you're not listening carefully you will miss things. Important things. I will not pause, I will not repeat myself, and you will not interrupt me. If you think that because you're sitting where you are and I am sitting where I am that you are in control of what is about to happen, you 're mistaken. I am in control, because I know things that you do not know.
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Written and Performed by Milan Svoboda (BMI) 100%
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An instant classic
8 October 2014 | by (Cheshire, UK) – See all my reviews

A movie which oozes Britishness from every frame, The Imitation Game is an instant classic. Wartime Britain is depicted vividly, if a little caricatured, with an autumnal palette and a jaunty air.

A true story, sympathetically told, with good performances all round and a stand-out Turing from the indefatigable Mr Cumberbatch. The young Turing is also extremely well realised by Alex Lawther.

Meandering through Alan Turing's life since school until shortly before his death, the script demands your attention and regularly makes you smile.

Highly recommended.


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