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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.

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
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