Heartbreak High
2020
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A teenager (Nicolas Wright) moves to a new town, finds romance with a beautiful cheerleader (Rachelle Lefevre) and becomes a champion chess player.
Hatley High: Directed by Phil Price. With Nicolas Wright, Rachelle Lefevre, Nwamiko Madden, James A. Woods. Tommy Linklater is an eighteen-year old magician. The magic he performs is often minor - re-directing croquet balls, making cards appear in closed purses - it is always genuine; he actually does the impossible.
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- Comedy, Romance
- Phil Price
- 2003-09
This is a great movie, long overlooked. A small town high school is nuts about chess and everybody plays The big showdown comes when a team from the Soviet Union is flown in to play the big match. The coach for Hatley High is a Soviet defector who defected during the last chess match between the two teams.
Tommy is moved to forgive her. Shaun, still suspicious from his victory, invites Tommy to an underground high stakes chess club, rife with shady characters, hot babes, and money. Shaun, hoping to ...
Sep 23, 2003 · The Canadian teen comedy Hatley High sends up high school sports rituals by placing a most unlikely competitive game at the center of its story: that of chess. Tommy (Nicholas Wright) is a new arrival in his parents' hometown of Hatley, whose mother recently died. He discovers, after the fact, that his mom was once a chess pro and thus a legend in the community. Tommy's chess-fixated peers ...
90 minutes. Country. Canada. Language. English. Budget. $300,000 USD. Hatley High is a 2003 independent comedy film directed by Phil Price and written by Myles Hainsworth. It was shown at various film festivals from September 2003 to 2005 including the San Diego Film Festival and the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival .
