Knight Moves (film)

Knight Moves
Knight Moves
	DVD cover art
Directed by	Carl Schenkel
Written by	Brad Mirman
Produced by	Jean-Luc Defait; Ziad El Khoury; Dieter Geissler [de]; Guy Collins; Gordon Mark
Starring	Christopher Lambert; Diane Lane; Tom Skerritt; Daniel Baldwin;
Cinematography	Dietrich Lohmann
Edited by	Norbert Herzner
Music by	Anne Dudley
Production; companies	Cineplex Odeon Films; Lamb Bear Entertainment; CineVox Entertainment
Distributed by	InterStar Releasing; Republic Pictures
Release dates	January 22, 1992 (Germany); January 22, 1993 (U.S.);
Running time	105 minutes; 116 minutes (international cut)
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$9 million
Box office	$31.5 million

Knight Moves is a 1992 American thriller film, directed by Carl Schenkel and written by Brad Mirman, about a chess grandmaster who is accused of several grisly murders.^[3]

Synopsis

In 1972 David and Peter face each other in a chess match. The loser stabs the winner repeatedly with a fountain pen, leaving his opponent with everlasting bodily scars. The loser's savage attack on his childhood opponent after his public humiliation and defeat leads to the dissolution of his parents' marriage. His father leaves forever and the boy finds his mother dying from being slashed with a broken bottle. The boy spends the next twenty years in and out of asylums and foster care. In the meantime he becomes one of the youngest, most successful chess grandmasters in history. A brilliant yet troubled widower with a beloved daughter, he suddenly finds himself a suspect in his casual lover's murder. When more homicides occur, Captain Frank Sedman and his partner Detective Andy Wagner determine that a serial killer is at work on a Pacific Northwest island. As the chess master becomes more and more connected to the deaths, psychologist Kathy Sheppard is brought in to figure out if the chess prodigy is as innocent as he claims to be.

Cast

Actor / Actress	Character
Christopher Lambert	Peter Sanderson
Diane Lane	Kathy Sheppard
Tom Skerritt	Capt. Frank Sedman
Daniel Baldwin	Det. Andy Wagner
Katharine Isabelle (as Katherine Isobel)	Erica Sanderson
Charles Bailey-Gates	David Willerman
Blu Mankuma	Steve Nolan
Ferdy Mayne (as Ferdinand Mayne)	Jeremy Edmonds
Elizabeth Baldwin	Christie Eastman
Rachel Hayward	Last Victim
Megan Leitch	Mother
Codie Lucas Wilbee	David at nine
Don Thompson	Father
Joshua Murray	Peter at fourteen
Alex Diakun	Grandmaster Lutz
Arthur Brauss	Viktor Yurilivich
Elizabeth Barclay	Loraine Olson
Aundrea MacDonald	Mary Albert
Sam Malkin	Doctor Fulton
Kymberly Sheppard	Detective Janet McLellan
Deryl Hayes	Officer Harton
Kehli O'Byrne	Debi Rutlege
Monica Marko	Miss Greenwell

References

^ Knight Moves - AFI
^ Budgets and Markets: A Study of the Budgeting of European Films by Terry Ilott, Google Books.
^ Holden, Stephen (January 23, 1993). "Review/Film; A Grandmaster Who Plays Cat and Mouse. Your Move". The New York Times. Retrieved 12 July 2017.

External links

[1] Knight Moves - AFI

[2] Budgets and Markets: A Study of the Budgeting of European Films by Terry Ilott, Google Books.

[3] Holden, Stephen (January 23, 1993). "Review/Film; A Grandmaster Who Plays Cat and Mouse. Your Move". The New York Times. Retrieved 12 July 2017.

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