The Imitation Game

Year:

2014

Duration:

114 min

Genres:

Biography | Drama | Thriller | War

IMDB rate:

8.2

Director:

Morten Tyldum

Awards:

Won Oscar. Another 45 wins & 104 nominations

Details

Country: UK

Release Date: 2014-12-25

Filming Locations: London, England, UK

Earnings

Budget: $14,000,000

Opening Weekend: $7,932,292 (USA) (10 January 2015)

Gross: $83,883,539 (USA) (22 February 2015)

Cast

Actor

Character

Matthew Goode

The Imitation Game

Benedict Cumberbatch

Alan Turing

Keira Knightley

Joan Clarke

Rory Kinnear

Detective Robert Nock

Allen Leech

John Cairncross

Matthew Beard

Peter Hilton

Charles Dance

Commander Denniston

Mark Strong

Stewart Menzies

James Northcote

Jack Good

Tom Goodman-Hill

Sergeant Staehl

Steven Waddington

Superintendent Smith

Ilan Goodman

Keith Furman

Jack Tarlton

Charles Richards

Alex Lawther

Young Alan Turing

Jack Bannon

Christopher Morcom

Tuppence Middleton

Helen

Dominic Charman

Sherborne Student 1

James G. Nunn

Sherborne Student 2

Charlie Manton

Sherborne Student 3

David Charkham

Joan's Father

Victoria Wicks

Joan's Mother

Andrew Havill

Teacher

Laurence Kennedy

Headmaster

Tim Van Eyken

MI6 Agent

Will Bowden

Military Policeman

Miranda Bell

Margaret

Tim Steed

Electrical Assistant

Lee Asquith-Coe

MI6 Agent (uncredited)

Hayley Joanne Bacon

Woman in Crowd (uncredited)

Lauren Beacham

RAF Wren (uncredited)

Ingrid Benussi

Dancer (uncredited)

Nicholas Blatt

Ministry Man (uncredited)

Jack Brash

Evacuee (uncredited)

Ancuta Breaban

Wren (uncredited)

Heather Broderick

Passerby (uncredited)

Peter Brown

Navy Captain (uncredited)

Alex Corbet Burcher

Dancer (uncredited)

Grace Calder

Assistant Wren (uncredited)

Richard Campbell

Crossword Man in Pub (uncredited)

Daniel Chapple

MI6 Agent (uncredited)

Winston Churchill

Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Lisa Colquhoun

Joan Clarke's Friend (uncredited)

Alexander Cooper

Bletchley Park Agent (uncredited)

Chris Cowlin

Military Police Officer (uncredited)

Leigh Dent

Passerby (uncredited)

Esther Eden

WW2 Wren (uncredited)

Sam Exley

Military Policeman (uncredited)

Ben Farrow

Military Police (uncredited)

Mike Firth

Crossword Enthusiast (uncredited)

Hannah Flynn

Wren (uncredited)

Guna Gultniece

Passerby (uncredited)

Oscar Hatton

Evacuee (uncredited)

Adolf Hitler

Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Leigh Holland

M16 Agent (uncredited)

Luke Hope

MI6 Agent (uncredited)

Vincent Idearson

MI6 Agent (uncredited)

Denis Khoroshko

Civilian (uncredited)

Debra Leigh-Taylor

Evacuee (uncredited)

Stuart Matthews

Bletchley Park Operative (uncredited)

Amber-Rose May

Joan Clarke's Friend (uncredited)

Samantha Moran

Wren (uncredited)

Adam Nowell

Technician (uncredited)

Joseph Oliveira

M16 Agent (uncredited)

Ryan Parker

Young Guy on the Street (uncredited)

Harry Leonard Parkinson

Evacuee (uncredited)

John Redman

Young Officer (uncredited)

David G. Robinson

Police Sergeant White (uncredited)

Scott Stevenson

Bletchley (uncredited)

Alice Tapfield

Wren (uncredited)

Bartosz Wandrykow

Crossword Enthusiast (uncredited)

Nicola-Jayne Wells

First Aid Nurse (uncredited)

Josh Wichard

German Spy Plane Pilot (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

The apples Turing is shown giving to his colleagues are McIntosh apples. Not to be confused with the Apple Macintosh.

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Though Turing's surviving niece Inagh Payne agreed that Benedict Cumberbatch's casting as Alan Turing was very well suited, she disagreed with Keira Knightley's casting as Joan Clarke stating that the real Joan was 'rather plain'

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The 'bombe' machine 'Christopher' seen in the film, is based on a replica of Alan Turing's original machine, which is housed in the museum at Bletchley Park. Production designer Maria Djurkovic admitted, however, that it was made a little more cinematic by making it larger and having more of its inside mechanisms visible. It is neither a Turing Machine, which is the imaginary subject of his 1937 paper 'On Computable Numbers', nor a computer. The 'bombes' were not physically built by Turing, or at Bletchely Park. They ran at twenty 'clicks' per second, not the much slower rate in the film.

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Goofs

When Alan is at school in 1928, sitting with his friend Christopher, he has on his knee a paperback book of modern crossword puzzles. Neither paperback books nor modern crossword puzzles were common in 1928.

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When Hugh and Alan sit down with the girls in the pub, Hugh makes a reference to "kicking someone's ass". This is both anachronistic and a geographical error as this phrase is widely regarded as American slang from later in the 20th century.

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Detective Nock says that two professors became "radicalized" at Cambridge before they joined the communist party. But the term "radicalized" was not used in this way until the 1960s, when it was used in reference to civil rights groups.

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Quotes

Stewart Menzies: [candidates are taking a timed test] Six minutes... is that even possible?