Follows Helen "Nana" Lewis, a feisty chess master, and her grandsons, as they embark on a road trip to support her rise to state championships.
09-14-2023
1h 24m
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Main Cast
Movie Details
Production Info
Director:
Robin Givens
Writer:
Eric Ulloa
Production:
Dominion Pictures, Stargazer Films
Key Crew
Editor:
Nick Everhart
Costume Design:
Eric Gordon
Producer:
Carl Moellenberg
Executive Producer:
Zach O'Brien
Editor:
Andrew Keenan-Bolger
Locations and Languages
Country:
US
Filming:
US
Languages:
en
Main Cast
Mercedes Ruehl
Mercedes J. Ruehl is an American screen, stage, and television actress. She is the recipient of several accolades, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Tony Award, a Drama Desk Award, two Obie Awards, and two Outer Critics Circle Awards.
Her most acclaimed film role was in The Fisher King; her performance in the film earned her the 1991 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress as well as an American Comedy Award, a Boston Society of Film Critics Award, a Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award, and a Golden Globe.
Ruehl is known for her leading performance in the play Lost in Yonkers (1990) and supporting performance in the film The Fisher King (1991). Her other film credits include Big (1988), Married to the Mob (1988), Last Action Hero (1993), Roseanna's Grave (1997), and Hustlers (2019). She also played the mother of main character Vincent Chase in HBO's Entourage.
Tony Todd (December 4, 1954 – November 6, 2024) was an American actor and producer, known for his height (6'5", 1.96 m) and deep voice. He was well known for playing the Candyman in the horror movie franchise of the same name, William Bludworth in Final Destination and for guest starring roles on numerous television shows.
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Sierra McCormick was born on October 28, 1997 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA as Sierra Nicole McCormick. She is an actress, known for Land of the Lost (2009), Spooky Buddies (2011) and Ramona and Beezus (2010).
Morgan Fairchild (born Patsy Ann McClenny; February 3, 1950) is an American actress. She achieved prominence during the late 1970s and early 1980s with continuing roles in several television series, in which she usually conveyed a glamorous image. Fairchild began her career in the CBS daytime soap opera Search for Tomorrow as Jennifer Pace from 1973 to 1977. In 1978 she appeared on the primetime soap opera Dallas as the first actress to portray Jenna Wade, before taking a lead role in the NBC series Flamingo Road in 1980 (for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama). In 1984, she co-starred in ABC's short-lived primetime soap Paper Dolls, and then appeared in Falcon Crest as attorney Jordan Roberts from 1985 to 1986. Fairchild has also performed in theater and played guest roles in television comedies, including Murphy Brown (for which she was nominated for an Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series), Roseanne,Cybill, and Friends. She is a board member of SAG-AFTRA.
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Elizabeth Alice "Beth" Broderick (born February 24, 1959) is an American actress and director famous for her portrayal of the character Aunt Zelda in the television sitcom Sabrina, the Teenage Witch from 1996–2003 on ABC and then the Warner Bros. network.
Nicky Whelan (born 10 May 1981) is an Australian actress and model. She became known in Australia with the role of Pepper Steiger, which she played in the soap opera Neighbors, during a hundred episodes, broadcast between 2006 and 2007.
She arrived in Hollywood with two projects: first with the choral comedy Hollywood & Wine, where she played an aspiring actress arriving in Hollywood. Then by landing a recurring role in the ninth season of Scrubs, that of Maya, a very sexy medical student. However, the series is suddenly stopped. The actress then continues with the filming of a comedy by the Farrelly brothers, Good to shoot, worn by the tandem Jason Sudeikis / Owen Wilson, then appearances in series, short films and B series films.
The year 2013 allowed her to land more exposed projects: she appeared in six episodes of the detective series Franklin and Bash, then landed her first regular role in the web-series Chosen, carried by Milo Ventimiglia. She plays in the first two seasons of the series, also giving the reply to Chad Michael Murray.
The following year, she followed up with supporting roles in two fantastic feature films set in airplanes: one was a television film for the SyFy channel, Flight 7500: One Way Back, with a cast of actors from television series ; and the other is the action movie Le Chaos, carried by Nicolas Cage. She plays a flight attendant.
But above all, she shares the poster for a new television series, entitled Matador with Gabriel Luna. This thriller series, where the actors embody CIA agents, and produced by director Robert Rodriguez, however, does not exceed a season of 13 episodes.
She continues with the pilot of another series, which however does not succeed. In 2015, she therefore shared the poster for a B-series romance, Borrowed Moments, with Brian Krause, then appeared in the comedy Witness for Rent, worn by Kevin Hart, Josh Gad and Kaley Cuoco. She is also part of the very large distribution of the experimental Knight of Cups, by Terrence Malick. She also appears in five episodes of the Satisfaction series.
She continues to appear in minor projects, including the thriller Usurpation, which she shares with Nicolas Cage and Gina Gershon.
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Charlene L. Tilton (born December 1, 1958, ht. 4'11") is an American actress and singer. She is widely known for playing Lucy Ewing, the niece of brothers J. R. Ewing and Bobby Ewing (played by Larry Hagman and Patrick Duffy), on the television series Dallas in the 80's.
She has had a varied career in show business. She is best known for playing Lucy Ewing, the sly, vixenish, frequently frustrated granddaughter of Jock Ewing in the popular television series Dallas from 1978 to 1985 and from 1988 to 1990 and also on Knots Landing for 1 episode in 1979. She will reprise the role in the pilot of the new series.
In addition to several appearances on various TV shows, she has also appeared in feature films (including a cameo appearance in the John Milius film Big Wednesday), although these garnered little attention. Tilton is also a singer, singing her own vocals on a 1978 episode of Dallas. She also released a dance-pop single "C'est La Vie" in 1984 which became a hit in several countries in Europe, including staying at #1 in Germany.
She appeared on Circus of the Stars in 1979 and 1991, on one occasion acting as a knife thrower's target girl in a gold bikini. She was the guest host on Saturday Night Live on February 21, 1981. The episode in question featured a parody of the famed "Who Shot J.R.?" episode of Dallas. She did a number of commercials in the 1990s for the Abdominizer workout equipment. She appeared as herself in an episode of Married... with Children where her involvement with the "Abdominizer" was spoofed. In 2005, she appeared in the British reality TV show, The Farm.
Tilton was married to country singer Johnny Lee from 1982 to 1984 and to Domenick Allen from 1985 to 1992. She has one daughter, Cherish Lee, born in 1982.
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Margaret Avery (born January 20, 1944) is an American actress and singer. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance as Shug in The Color Purple (1985).
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Katie Sarife recently appeared as a lead role in the New Line franchise film Annabelle Comes Home (2019) opposite Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga and Mckenna Grace. She also recently wrapped filming on the thriller indie film So Cold the River (2022) written and directed by Paul Shoulberg and also staring Bethany Joy Lenz. Last year she was a lead character in the YouTubeRed original series Youth & Consequences (2018). Katie has also appeared in the Sony TV/Lifetime MOW Cleveland Abduction (2015) opposite Taryn Manning, where she played the real-life character Gina DeJesus. Other credits include a lead in the NBC pilot Curse of Fuentes Women, written by Silvio Horta, and the 200th episode of the CW hit series Supernatural (2005)
Mike C. Manning is an American actor, producer, television personality and activist. Manning first gained fame as a cast member on the MTV series The Real World: D.C. Since then he has starred in a number of films and television programs, such as the 2014 Disney Channel original movie Cloud 9, in which he played Nick Swift, and for producing the documentary Kidnapped for Christ.
