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Think creatively and use her imagination
- Over a series of many days, Norman sends her on seemingly meaningless ‘tasks’, like not taking shortcuts to learn about chess. But rather, piece by piece, he describes how they move comparing them to people in the city. He explains Max needs to think creatively and use her imagination.
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The story is about a 10-year-old girl named Max, living in Manhattan, NYC, whose interaction with a retired, fellow New Yorker teaches her about life and chess simultaneously. At the beginning, Max goes to a local public school, but her parents feel that she isn't being challenged enough.
Parents need to know that A Little Game is an earnest coming-of-age tale of Max, a 10-year-old girl dealing with change, sadness, and life lessons. The film uses chess to help Max come to terms with the issues she's facing, but the actual chess-playing time is minimal, and the story requires no previous….
- Evan Oppenheimer
- Renee Schonfeld
- Michael Mailer Films
But one day walking home from school she notices the chess players in the public square and enters into a deal for one of them to teach her. Played by F. Murray Abraham, his method is unique. Instead of simply telling Max how to play the game he has her go into the city and seek clues.
When her beloved grandmother dies suddenly, she feels more alone than ever. But fate comes to Max's rescue in the unlikely form of a grumpy old man called Norman, a chess master, who agrees to teach Max everything he knows about winning the game.
- 2 min
Apr 26, 2014 · 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.
Dec 11, 2014 · After a classmate (Fátima Ptacek) teases her for a lack of chess knowledge, Max wanders into Washington Square Park and strikes up an acquaintance with Norman (F. Murray Abraham), a curmudgeonly...
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.
