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Brooklyn Castle
Imagine a school where the cool kids are the chess team. Welcome to I.S. 318
Genres
Documentary
Overview
Brooklyn Castle is a documentary about I.S. 318 – an inner-city school where more than 65 percent of students are from homes with incomes below the federal poverty level – that also happens to have the best, most winning junior high school chess team in the country. (If Albert Einstein, who was rated 1800, were to join the team, he’d only rank fifth best.) Chess has transformed the school from one cited in 2003 as a “school in need of improvement” to one of New York City’s best. But a series of recession-driven public school budget cuts now threaten to undermine those hard-won successes.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$219407
Runtime
101 min
Release Date
2012-10-19
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Vote Count
19
Vote Average
6.8
Cast
Meet the talented actors who bring the movie to life.
John Galvin
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Elizabeth Vicary
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Rochelle Ballantyne
Herself
Pobo Efekoro
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Justus Williams
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Alex Stripunsky
Himself
James Stallings
Himself
Maurice Ashley
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Alexis Paredes
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Miron Sher
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Patrick Johnston
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Fortunato Rubio
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James Black, Jr
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