F. Murray Abraham
Norman Wallach
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The story is about a 10-year-old girl named Max, living in Manhattan, NYC, whose interaction with a retired, fellow New Yorker teaches her about life and chess simultaneously. At the beginning, Max goes to a local public school, but her parents feel that she isn't being challenged enough.
A Little Game: Directed by Evan Oppenheimer. With F. Murray Abraham, Ralph Macchio, Olympia Dukakis, Janeane Garofalo. A young girl finding her way around the city and her own life through chess lessons.
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...
A Little Game is a refreshing change of pace being hidden amongst the sex, violence-oriented movies. Max Kuftinec (Makenna Ballard) is tops in her class at her local New York City public school. She is a young pre-teen, cute with a thirst for knowledge.
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.
Maxine, a young girl who is ostracized at her new school, befriends a grizzled chess player. Through teaching Maxine the game, the feisty old man gives her the courage to stand up for herself and persevere through life’s challenges.
Max (Makenna Ballard) has a lot on her mind in A LITTLE GAME. Her caring parents ( Ralph Macchio and Janeane Garofalo ) are struggling to make ends meet so she can enroll in an expensive but esteemed New York City all-girl private school.
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.
A Little Game. 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...
When her beloved grandmother dies suddenly, she feels more alone than ever. But fate comes to Max's rescue in the unlikely form of a grumpy old man called Norman, a chess master, who agrees to teach Max everything he knows about winning the game.
