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Jan 17, 2014 · Life of a King. For a movie about chess—a game in which strategy, smarts and staying a step ahead of your opponent are crucial—”Life of a King” is awfully formulaic and predictable. Based on the true story of ex-con-turned-youth-mentor Eugene Brown, director and co-writer Jake Goldberger’s drama is earnest to a fault and hits all the ...
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Our review: Parents say: ( 2 ): Kids say: Not yet rated Rate movie. Despite an admirable performance by Gooding Jr., humanizing a complicated man who truly seems to have changed his life, this movie is nearly unbelievably predictable -- even if it is fact-based. The entire film seems like a mash-up of several other movies about educators and ...
- Jake Goldberger
- Sandie Angulo Chen
- Millennium Films
Permalink. 8/10. Inspiring. JayDoubleU84 13 March 2014. "Life of a King" is a good movie with a great story, good actors and an excellent Cuba Gooding Jr. as main character. It's all about morals, ethics and the meaning of life and constantly reminds us that we are responsible for our own actions.
Life of a King tells the story of Eugene Brown, an ex-convict who established a chess club for struggling students in the Washington D.C. area. Brown, played by Cuba Gooding Jr., had been ...
Jan 17, 2014 · Life of a King is the unlikely true story of Eugene Brown and his one-man mission to give inner-city kids of Washington D.C. something he never had — a future. He discovered a multitude of life lessons through the game of chess during his 18-year incarceration for bank robbery. After his release and re-entry into the workforce, Eugene developed and founded the Big Chair Chess Club to get ...
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After serving 18 years in prison, a man secures a job at a high school and forms a chess club to help inner-city youth make moves toward their future. Watch trailers & learn more.