Brooklyn Castle (2012)

"Imagine a school where the cool kids are the chess team. Welcome to I.S. 318"Movie
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Brooklyn Castle
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StarringJohn GalvinElizabeth VicaryRochelle Ballantyne
DirectorKatie Dellamaggiore
PG 1 hr 41 minOct 19th, 2012Documentary
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Plot
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.

Movie Details

Theatrical Release:October 19th, 2012
On DVD & Blu-ray:June 4th, 2013 - Buy DVD
Movie Box Office Gross:$219,407 (Worldwide)
Original Language:English
Executive Producers:Geoff Gibson, Robert McLellan
Production Companies:Rescued Media, Doc Society
Brooklyn Castle on the Web:Official Website
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