Knight Moves

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
Category:Rated R
Category:1992 films
Category:English-language films
Category:1990s serial killer films
Category:American psychological thriller films
Category:1990s mystery thriller films
Category:1990s psychological thriller films
Category:Films about chess
Category:American mystery thriller films
Category:American films
Category:Police detective films
Category:Films shot in Vancouver
Category:American serial killer films
Category:Films with screenplays by Brad Mirman
Category:Films scored by Anne Dudley
Category:Films directed by Carl Schenkel
Category:Republic Pictures films
Category:InterStar Releasing films