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.
Genre: Adventure, Family Actors: F. Murray Abraham, Fatima Ptacek, Fina Strazza, Gabriel Rush, Janeane Garofalo, Kimberly Quinn, Makenna Ballard, Olympia Dukakis, Oona Laurence, Rachel Dratch, Ralph Macchio, Tovah Feldshuh Directors: Evan Oppenheimer