Knights of the South Bronx
Knights of the South Bronx

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- 67/100 based on 1,097 votes
  • Released: 2005
  • Runtime: 89 mins
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  • Studio: Fox Television Studios
  • Genres: Drama

The movie is based on the life & times of David MacEnulty who taught schoolchildren of the Bronx Community Elementary School 70 to play at competition level, eventually winning New York City and the New York State Chess Championships. The screenplay portrays whistle-blowing and a mid-life crisis that combine to remove Richard Mason (played by Ted Danson) from his old job & current lifestyle. He becomes a substitute teacher and is assigned to a fourth-grade class in a South Br... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Knights of the South Bronx:

Ted Danson
Malcolm David Kelley
Brian Markinson
Kate Vernon
Yves Beneche
Yucini Diaz

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The movie is based on the life & times of David MacEnulty who taught schoolchildren of the Bronx Community Elementary School 70 to play at competition level, eventually winning New York City and the New York State Chess Championships. The screenplay portrays whistle-blowing and a mid-life crisis that combine to remove Richard Mason (played by Ted Danson) from his old job & current lifestyle. He becomes a substitute teacher and is assigned to a fourth-grade class in a South Bronx school. In the class are students with parents who are drug addicts or in jail or just scrambling to pay the bills. Few of them see a purpose in school other than meeting society's requirements, and he struggles, mostly in vain, to reach them. Then a student whose father is in jail sees Mason in the park playing a simultaneous exhibition, and beating fourteen opponents at once. He asks to learn the game. One thing leads to another, and soon the entire class is interested in the game. Mason convinces them that on the chessboard it doesn't matter how much money you have or what clothes you wear or where you come from, and that it's only the moves you make, then and there. The class forms a team to compete in ever-larger tournaments.

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DVDTalk.com - 4/10 by David CorneliusStubbornly refuses to rise above its own genre, sticking so closely to the formula that it winds up earning more snickers than applause.
User Review - 10/10 by Majbritt WChess movies, how awesome are they! Almost all are based on true stories and ths one's no exception.
User Review - 10/10 by Donald GThis movie is smashing as Ted Danson Plays Richard Mason telling the story of David MacEnulty Teaching children who want to learn how to play chess, that that not only can do better in the classroom, but also they can do better in life. The way he works with these kids, he not got praise from the kids, but also the school administrators as well as the kids parents & turning one young man that was being looked at & being beaten by gang bangers, giving that child inspiration & hope after the child visits his Dad(Clifton Powell) in prison, to stand up to that gang & telling them basically if you don't leave me alone, my Dad's murderer friends who soon will be released, will be knocking at their door looking for them if they didn't leave him alone. This is by far The BEST role Ted Danson has played since 3 men & a baby with Tom Selleck & Steve Guttenburg.
User Review - 10/10 by Jennifer Pfirst-class of a person changing kids' life
User Review - 10/10 by Kathi DReally good! I like the part where the kindergartener kicks their butts....LOL
User Review - 10/10 by TonyPolitoThe script's cliche/weak, and lacks the overt drama of better 'teacher' films. Nevertheless, the story of David MacEnulty's nationally successful, baked-from-scratch scholastic chess team within one of the most underprivileged school districts in America is indeed a story well worth telling and viewing. Not surprisingly, the studios balked on this property, shopped for years before finding production under A&E's made-for-television moniker. The sadder, untold ending is MacEnulty was eventually baited away to run chess at Manhattan's prestigious Dalton School. As a once organizer (and player) of scholastic chess, I can attest that the ideas dramatized herein are true enough. Young students WILL find chess fascinating and initially attain significant skill simply through practice. Chess IS a leveler; reasonably smart students lacking resources (such as private coaches) CAN challenge and defeat those who have them. Students ARE mesmerized by the trophies that represent their intellectual achievement. Involvement in scholastic chess DOES positively impact academics: it instills physical and intellectual focus, practices logical/spatial reasoning, teaches that concentration/study and practice is not meaningless work but rather eventually leads to REAL outcomes/improvement. And yes, there is often administrative resistance. Chess pulls no gate, hence financial backing is a major issue, though chess costs far less than most sports. Chess is not status quo curriculum, so it's allotted no time or respect. Advocacy by parents and outsiders is key. Within two years, my own "high-need, urban high school" chess program went from scratch to competitive, running active tournaments, interesting over 100 students, taking some state/national trophies, after which a district-wide program was implemented and a full-time chess master hired. Scholastic chess CAN work wonders for K-12 students; watch this film - and then imagine what it can do for your children and your schools.
User Review - 8/10 by Ida KWho knew that a movie about chess could be so inspiring?
User Review - 8/10 by Oliver EReal feel good movie, great story about chess and what it can do with belief.
User Review - 8/10 by Private UIt wasn't that bad. pretty un original but also sweet. Ted Danson sucks tho.
User Review - 8/10 by Wayne HThis film takes one of them games I thought was pretty boring to a group of kids who use it to kick some serious ass. I loved this film and is one I recommend when ever you need to feel good.

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