Ex-felon, Eugene Brown, establishes a Chess Club for inner city teenagers in Washington, D.C.Ex-felon, Eugene Brown, establishes a Chess Club for inner city teenagers in Washington, D.C.Ex-felon, Eugene Brown, establishes a Chess Club for inner city teenagers in Washington, D.C.
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Derrick L. McMillon
- Billy West
- (as Derrick McMillon)
Alani Ilongwe
- Clifton
- (as Carlton Byrd)
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- TriviaReal life Eugene Brown has cameo at registration desk in final tournament sequence.
- GoofsThe radio station is identified as KCAL. Yet the radio station is in Virginia. Radio and TV stations in the eastern US have call letters that start with "W". Radio stations in the western US start with "K". Virginia is an eastern state, therefore, its radio stations start with a "W", and NOT a "K".
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Written by Michael Gennaro Catanese and Michael Richard Post
Performed by The Jay Vons
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relatively good for the genre
Eugene Brown (Cuba Gooding Jr.) just got out of prison. His daughter Katrina doesn't want to deal with him and he's desperate to prove his worth to her. He gets a job as a janitor at an inner city D.C. school. The kids chase out the teacher monitoring detention and Sheila King (LisaGay Hamilton) puts Eugene in charge for a minute. He does such a great job that she puts him in charge permanently. He starts teaching them to play chess. The effort is opposed by drug lord Perry.
It's yet another 'teach inner city kids something different'. It takes a few different turns than the usual genre movie. The hurdles are a little different. Cuba is relatively good. The young kids are all great. Jake Goldberger's directing is not terribly inventive. It's more of a solid TV movie that is slightly better than the average movie in the genre.
It's yet another 'teach inner city kids something different'. It takes a few different turns than the usual genre movie. The hurdles are a little different. Cuba is relatively good. The young kids are all great. Jake Goldberger's directing is not terribly inventive. It's more of a solid TV movie that is slightly better than the average movie in the genre.
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- Gross US & Canada
- $6,547
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $4,231
- Jan 19, 2014
- Gross worldwide
- $44,161
- Runtime1 hour 40 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.78 : 1
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