Ostracized at her posh new uptown school and shaken by the death of her beloved grandmother, a 10 year-old downtown girl finds an unlikely mentor in the form of an irascible chess-master, who uses the game to teach Max lessons in resilience, perseverance, and how to embrace inevitable change.
Rated PG | Length 92 minutes
Ralph Macchio | Janeane Garofalo | F. Murray Abraham | Fatima Ptacek | Kimberly Quinn | Rachel Dratch | Olympia Dukakis | Tovah Feldshuh | Oona Laurence | Makenna Ballard | Fina Strazza | Gabriel Rush