Overview
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 an irascible chess master, who uses the game to teach Max lessons in resilience, perseverance, and how to embrace inevitable change.
Cast
- Ralph Macchio as Tom Kuftinec
- Janeane Garofalo as Sarah Kuftinec
- F. Murray Abraham as Norman Wallach
- Fatima Ptacek as Isabella Diaz
- Kimberly Quinn as Laura Langer
- Rachel Dratch as Aunt Diane
- Olympia Dukakis as Yaya
- Tovah Feldshuh as Blackstone Head of School
- Oona Laurence as Becky Langer
- Makenna Ballard as Max Kuftinec