A Little Game (2014) Adventure / Family | COMPLETE Movie

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 elderly man who teaches her more than the rules of the game. Featuring a cast of familiar faces including F. Murray Abraham, Olympia Dukakis, Ralph Macchio, Janeane Garofalo and Rachel Dratch, A Little Game is a sweetly well-intentioned effort that displays a personal stamp even while occasionally descending into mawkishness. Opening for an exclusive theatrical engagement at New York’s Quad Cinema, it should find its most receptive audiences via home video formats.

Child actress Makenna Ballard makes an impressively naturalistic film debut in the lead role of ten-year-old Max, who lives in NYC’s Greenwich Village. Although happily attending the neighborhood’s public school, she reluctantly goes along when the opportunity presents itself for her to switch to a exclusive all-girls private school on the Upper East Side, which presents no small obstacle for her financially struggling parents (Macchio, Garofalo).

Max finds herself struggling to get along with her well-heeled classmates chaperoned by nannies and picked up after school in black SUVs. She particularly attracts the ire of the snooty Isabella (Fatima Ptasek), who seizes the opportunity expose Max’s ignorance when she tries to join the chess club. Adding to Max’s woes is the death of her beloved Greek grandmother (Dukakis), who later periodically appears to deliver nuggets of wisdom from the great beyond.

Walking home one day through Washington Square Park, she comes upon one of its resident outdoor chess players, the irascible Norman (Abraham), who initially rebuffs her request that she teach him the game. But he’s soon won over by her pluckiness, with the ensuing lessons encompassing solo field trips throughout the city featuring magical realism-style encounters with eccentric characters.

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