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{{Infobox film

| name = Knight Moves

| image = KnightMoves.jpg

| caption = DVD cover art

| director = Carl Schenkel

| producer =

| writer = Brad Mirman

| starring =

| music = Anne Dudley

| cinematography = Dietrich Lohmann

| editing = Norbert Herzner

| studio = Cineplex Odeon Films
Lamb Bear Entertainment
CineVox Entertainment
Republic Pictures

| distributor = InterStar Releasing (North America)
Columbia TriStar Film Distributors International (International)

| released =

| runtime = 105 minutes
116 minutes (international cut)

| country = United States

| language = English

| budget = $9 million

| gross = $31.5 million[https://books.google.fr/books?id=KUd9xnsNFNoC&pg=PA70&lpg=PA70&dq=knight+moves+carl+schenkel+production+budget&source=bl&ots=TbeJ1M3Zai&sig=X0wWb-c2ykhH5qRT2aQoEfDVOO0&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjGuLuf7bXdAhXID8AKHV8ZDjgQ6AEwDnoECAQQAQ#v=onepage&q=knight%20moves%20carl%20schenkel%20production%20budget&f=false 'Budgets and Markets: A Study of the Budgeting of European Films' by Terry Ilott], Google Books.

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'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.

Plot



In 1972 David and Peter face each other in a chess match. David, the loser, stabs the winner Peter with a fountain pen. 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 suicide from a slashed wrist, yet he ignores her and retrieves his locked-away chessboard. The boy spends the next twenty years in and out of asylums and foster care and is never seen again.

In the meantime, Peter 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, newly-appointed Police Captain Frank Sedman and his partner Detective Andy Wagner determine that a serial killer is at work. 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



* Christopher Lambert as Peter Sanderson

* Diane Lane as Kathy Sheppard

* Tom Skerritt as Captain Frank Sedman

* Daniel Baldwin as Detective Andy Wagner

* Katharine Isabelle as Erica Sanderson

* Charles Bailey-Gates as David Willerman

* Blu Mankuma as Steve Nolan

* Ferdy Mayne as Jeremy Edmonds

* Elizabeth Baldwin as Christie Eastman

* Rachel Hayward as Last Victim

* Megan Leitch as Mother

* Codie Lucas Wilbee as David at nine

* Don Thompson as Father

* Joshua Murray as Peter at fourteen

* Alex Diakun as Grandmaster Lutz

* Arthur Brauss as Viktor Yurilivich

* Elizabeth Barclay as Loraine Olson

* Aundrea MacDonald as Mary Albert

* Sam Malkin as Doctor Fulton

* Kymberly Sheppard as Detective Janet McLellan

* Deryl Hayes as Officer Harton

* Kehli O'Byrne as Debi Rutlege

* Monica Marko as Miss Greenwell

Production



Filming took place on location in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The exterior of the hotel is actually Hatley Castle which is part of the Hatley Park National Historic Site. The interiors were filmed in a German studio as well as the Tea Lobby of the Fairmont Empress Hotel in Victoria.

Lambert and Lane were married in real life during the production, having been married from 1988 to 1994.

Reception



On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 17% based on reviews from 6 critics.

References






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