Innocent Moves [1993]

RRP £15.99 Lowest New Price £2.65

Parental Guidance Paramount Home Entertainment Release date: Monday 22nd of September 2003 Starring: Joan Allen, Joe Mantegna, Laurence Fishburne, Ben Kingsley, Max Pomeranc, Director(s): Format: PAL, Number of discs: 1 Region code: 2 Running time: 105 minutes Language: English (Original Language)

RRP: £15.99
most dangerous sport after boxing
Review date: 2008-06-04 Rating: 8 out of 10

This is one of these rare film about chess, for some a sport, for some others a game, for a few, a work, or his entire life. The story is about a little child from USA about seven years old with exceptional talent for playing chess. A chess teacher thinks he has the ability that had in his time Bobby Fischer, the legendary American champion which defeated Russia in his own game.
The film deals with this theme with talent and delicately, as chess is I think, difficult to translate to cinema, but furthermore there are another problems, as how a practice so absorbent has to influence on the psychological equilibrium of a boy so young, as competitive high level chess demands not only intelligence, but the will to win with enormous patience and tenacity a child it's no normal to possess.
And unfortunately isn't exceptional some stupid blind ambitious parents want to explode his son's capacities that themselves never attained in his whole, adult life as a substitutive of the success they never achieved. A truly dangerous temptation, toying with the life of another person, in this case, a son and a child. Truly, any game is only that, a toy, including playing cards or stock market... until you convert these in a way of winning your life or a profession, but by then these is yet a work, and work is for adults, not a task for children.
The chess games are presented in a mostly spectacular speedy way not very real, but very own of USA cinema. This film is uncommon, worth and interesting if you know something about chess.