25. Donnie Smith is a former television quiz kid who as an adult tries to live off his childhood fame with only temporary success. He is inept, lacks social skills, and has only a fleeting association with reality. Who played Donnie Smith?
From Quiz Magnolia
Answer:
William H. Macy
Another parallel in the film is the contrast between the present 'quiz kid' and the 'quiz kid' of the past. Jeremy Blackman plays Stanley Spector, a genius child dominated by his father to only focus on the quiz program and who has no normal life outside television. His final humiliation is urinating in his pants after a producer denies him access to a bathroom in order to keep the timing of the program on schedule.
Donnie Smith, a former child genius, is clumsy, eccentric, friendless, and adrift in life. He has survived by his childhood fame as a television star but that has worn thin on his employer who fires him. He blames his parents for cheating him out of the money he earned as a child, blames being struck by lightning as a cause for his failures as an adult, and believes that getting dental braces will solve all his problems. He turns to burglary as another solution but is again betrayed by his own ineptness.
William F. Macy is an established character actor who has appeared in such films as "Boogie Nights" (1997), Fargo (1996), and "The Cooler" (2003).
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