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- Writer-director Evan Oppenheimer has elicited some terrific performances, photographed New York City with style, and delivered a movie with appeal for older kids and tweens. The story deals with thoughts and situations with which most kids struggle during their formative middle-grade years.
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Parents need to know that A Little Game is an earnest coming-of-age tale of Max, a 10-year-old girl dealing with change, sadness, and life lessons. The film uses chess to help Max come to terms with the issues she's facing, but the actual chess-playing time is minimal, and the story requires no previous….
- Evan Oppenheimer
- Renee Schonfeld
- Michael Mailer Films
A Little Game is nice, family-friendly (for the most part) movie with quality acting. The young stage actress, Makenna Ballard makes her big screen debut as Max, a 10-year-old Manhattenite. Olympia Dukakis as her "Ya-Ya" and F.Murray Abraham as her reluctant mentor.
Dec 11, 2014 · Chess lessons become metaphorical life lessons in Evan Oppenheimer ‘s family-friendly film about a ten year-old girl who learns to navigate personal crises via her interactions with an irascible...
Dec 11, 2014 · A precocious 10-year-old girl learns a bit about chess and even more about life in “A Little Game,” a serviceable family film that is hardly a worthy rival for “Searching for Bobby Fischer.”
- Evan Oppenheimer
A Little Game is a 2014 American family adventure film starring F. Murray Abraham, Ralph Macchio, Janeane Garofalo and Olympia Dukakis.
Apr 26, 2014 · 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.
Ostracized at her new school and grief-stricken over her grandmother's death, a 10-year-old girl (Makenna Ballard) learns about persevering in the face of inevitable change from an irascible...
- Kids & Family, Drama
