(1993). Josh is also too sensitive to beat down his opponents, like Bobby Fischer did. It's too bad that you can see almost none of this in the TV movie version of Its surroundings and paces were also lack of plausibility among other things. Innocent Moves Review. Then, after about another forty minutes I thought, this story seems familiar........And then it hit me, I'm watching a near perfect copy of the Harrison Ford film 'Presumed Innocent'. some cheesy acting as the prosecutor's team tries to prove that the judge knocked off the wife. 1. With Sorcha Groundsell, Percelle Ascott, Guy Pearce, Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson. Was this review helpful to you? External Reviews What does bother Bruce about Josh is his playing with the local chess hustlers like Winnie, Laurence Fishburn, in Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village. He helps the police as the murders continue. Josh likes all kinds of sports, besides chess, and his dad Fred Waitzkin, Joe Mantegna, is a sports writer who takes Josh along to the Yankee and New York Mets baseball games where the young boy really has as much of a good time watching the ball games as he has playing chess. User Ratings In a time and place where discretion is still a man's best friend, he falls in love with a mysterious woman, who will take him on the dark side of evil. Bill Pullman is Judge Sabich. It is largely inoffensive because it is constructed to the well worn formula of finger pointing to a murderer and then seeing just how many things can change your mind before the credits roll. It feels like a rushed job with rather crude characterization, while Bill Pullman looks bored and some of the actors like lost in translation (especially T. Penikett, C.L. not a lot of votes or reviews for this one on imdb. With Joe Mantegna, Ben Kingsley, Max Pomeranc, Joan Allen. I wasn't blasted back in my seat... but I did enjoy it. A year earlier is his 60th birthday. Approved third parties … Are the actual moves in the Waitzkin versus Sarwer match avaliable? Do you have a movie you'd like to see reviewed? It's too bad that you can see almost none of this in the TV movie version of Innocent. Directed by Steven Zaillian. Fred realizes what a whiz his young son Josh is in the game of chess and wants to have him study the finer points of the game by hiring former national chess champion Bruce Pandolfini, Ben Kingsley, to tutor him and Bruce right away realizes that Josh has the makings of another Bobby Fischer. Innocent, a Nigerian movie on IrokoTV about Child abuse / Molestation. A man accused of killing his mistress twenty years previously is arrested again on suspicion of murdering his wife. I'm glad I did. I liked the original movie, "Presumed Innocent". 17-year-old Eric follows his parents to immigrate to Canada and is thus forced to confront different emotional and cultural problems. | A Civil War veteran agrees to deliver a girl, taken by the Kiowa people years ago, to her aunt and uncle, against her will. Yonge Street and Dundas Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The 'Cliff Notes' version of a great book, A competent and enjoyable courtroom drama but nothing more, Top 700 Law & Order/Matlock/Hill Street Blues Type Films & Shows. A prepubescent chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer. There is a good reason for the accusation and a previous affair led to a big media trial. Is "Searching for Bobby Fischer" based on a book? Check out the most anticipated movies and TV to stream in March, including Zack Snyder's Justice League, Godzilla vs. Kong, and more. Molina and the woman who portrays the judge play them with accents. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. A review requested by reader WBTN, with thanks for supporting Alternate Ending as a donor through Patreon. About this product. An underdog lawyer takes on a fraudulent insurance company. In her convent, several nuns are pregnant. All that finally earns Josh a re-match with Jonathan for the Junior Chess Championship of the US in Chicago at the conclusion of the film.Powerful movie and very intense for the young boys and girls in it in how they drive and push themselves to be the best at the game of chess and at the same time putting themselves in danger of sacrificing their one and only childhood to do it.