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.
Ralph Macchio
Tom Kuftinec
Janeane Garofalo
Sarah Kuftinec
F. Murray Abraham
Norman Wallach
Fatima Ptacek
Isabella Diaz
Kimberly Quinn
Laura Langer
Rachel Dratch
Aunt Diane
Olympia Dukakis
Yaya
Tovah Feldshuh
Blackstone Head of School
