Knight Moves (film)
Knight Moves is a 1992 American thriller film, directed by Carl Schenkel and written by Brad Mirman, about a chess grandmaster who is accused of several grisly murders.[3]
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Directed by | Carl Schenkel |
Produced by | Jean-Luc Defait Ziad El Khoury Dieter Geissler Guy Collins Gordon Mark |
Written by | Brad Mirman |
Starring | |
Music by | Anne Dudley |
Cinematography | Dietrich Lohmann |
Edited by | Norbert Herzner |
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Distributed by | InterStar Releasing Republic Pictures |
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Running time | 105 minutes 116 minutes (international cut) |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $9 million[1] |
Box office | $31.5 million[2] |
Synopsis
In 1972 David and Peter face each other in a chess match. The loser stabs the winner repeatedly with a fountain pen, leaving his opponent with everlasting bodily scars. The loser's savage attack on his childhood opponent after his public humiliation and defeat leads to the dissolution of his parents' marriage. His father leaves forever and the boy finds his mother dying from being slashed with a broken bottle. The boy spends the next twenty years in and out of asylums and foster care. In the meantime he becomes one of the youngest, most successful chess grandmasters in history. A brilliant yet troubled widower with a beloved daughter, he suddenly finds himself a suspect in his casual lover's murder. When more homicides occur, Captain Frank Sedman and his partner Detective Andy Wagner determine that a serial killer is at work on a Pacific Northwest island. As the chess master becomes more and more connected to the deaths, psychologist Kathy Sheppard is brought in to figure out if the chess prodigy is as innocent as he claims to be.
Cast
Actor / Actress | Character |
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Christopher Lambert | Peter Sanderson |
Diane Lane | Kathy Sheppard |
Tom Skerritt | Capt. Frank Sedman |
Daniel Baldwin | Det. Andy Wagner |
Katharine Isabelle (as Katherine Isobel) | Erica Sanderson |
Charles Bailey-Gates | David Willerman |
Blu Mankuma | Steve Nolan |
Ferdy Mayne (as Ferdinand Mayne) | Jeremy Edmonds |
Elizabeth Baldwin | Christie Eastman |
Rachel Hayward | Last Victim |
Megan Leitch | Mother |
Codie Lucas Wilbee | David at nine |
Don Thompson | Father |
Joshua Murray | Peter at fourteen |
Alex Diakun | Grandmaster Lutz |
Arthur Brauss | Viktor Yurilivich |
Elizabeth Barclay | Loraine Olson |
Aundrea MacDonald | Mary Albert |
Sam Malkin | Doctor Fulton |
Kymberly Sheppard | Detective Janet McLellan |
Deryl Hayes | Officer Harton |
Kehli O'Byrne | Debi Rutlege |
Monica Marko | Miss Greenwell |
References
- Knight Moves - AFI
- Budgets and Markets: A Study of the Budgeting of European Films by Terry Ilott, Google Books.
- Holden, Stephen (January 23, 1993). "Review/Film; A Grandmaster Who Plays Cat and Mouse. Your Move". The New York Times. Retrieved 12 July 2017.
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