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.
Ralph Macchio
Janeane Garofalo
F. Murray Abraham
Fatima Ptacek
Kimberly Quinn
Rachel Dratch
Olympia Dukakis
Tovah Feldshuh
Oona Laurence
Makenna Ballard
Fina Strazza
Gabriel Rush