That Game of Chess

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That Game of Chess
Directed by Raja Bundela
Written byViresh Sinha
Oge Madekwe
Produced bySunny Bedi
Bonnie Klein
Amresh Sinha
Viresh Sinha
Starring
  • Viresh Sinha
  • Melanie Malia
  • Alok Nath
  • Cazzy Golomb
CinematographyArmand Gazarian
John O'Shaughnessy
Edited byChris Worland
Music by Jason Solowsky
Production
company
Madan Prem Entertainment
Release date
  • 3 April 2009 (2009-04-03)
Running time
93 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

That Game of Chess is a 2009 American drama film directed by Raja Bundela, starring Viresh Sinha, Melanie Malia, Alok Nath and Cazzy Golomb.

Contents

Cast

Release

The film was released on 3 April 2009. [1]

Reception

Gary Goldstein of the Los Angeles Times wrote that the film is "so unconvincingly played and poorly crafted that it's checkmate from the first move." [2]

David Chute of LA Weekly wrote that "the film displays no zest or inventiveness whatsoever, though the actors manage, most of the time, to read their dialog audibly." [3]

Mark Keizer of Boxoffice rated the film 0.5 stars out of 5 and wrote that the film is "just too silly for any serious discussion other than how Sinha plans to live now that’s blown his life savings on a movie this bad." [1]

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References

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