Life of a King
Short description
Life of a King tells the true story of Eugene Brown, a man who returns to Washington, D.C. after serving eighteen years in prison for armed robbery. With little money and few people left in his life, he takes a job as a school janitor and eventually begins supervising a group of students. To occupy them, he teaches them chess, using the game to show that every move has consequences. The club he builds becomes a way to keep these young people off the streets and point them toward futures they had not imagined for themselves.
Jake Goldberger directed the film, the second of the three features he has made, from a screenplay he wrote with David Scott and Dan Wetzel. Cuba Gooding Jr. plays Eugene Brown, with Malcolm M. Mays, Kevin Hendricks, Alani iLongwe, LisaGay Hamilton and Dennis Haysbert among a credited cast of twenty-four. It runs 101 minutes.
On IMDb, the film holds a 6.9 rating from around 9,500 votes, while on TMDB it sits at 7.2 from roughly 214 votes. A critics' rating of 5.4 from thirteen reviews places it below the audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- Immediately before the final credits roll, the viewer sees two photographs. The first depicts the actors who starred in the film, standing in front of the chess club building featured in the film; the second shows Eugene Brown (played by Cuba Gooding Jr.) with his students.
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