Life of a King
Release Date: January 17, 2014
“Life of a King” opens in theaters in the following cities:
Queens, NY, Atlanta, Charlotte, Cincy Newport, Columbus, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Kansas City, Omaha, Orlando, Philadelphia, Raleigh, Tampa & Tulsa
Distributor: Millennium Entertainment
Director: Jake Goldberger
Screenwriters: Jake Goldberger, Dan Wetzel, David Scott
Producers: Tatiana Kelly, Steak House, Valerie Stadler, Mary Vernieu, and Jim Young.
Director of photography: Mark Schwartzbard
Production design: Michael Fitzgerald
Music: Eric V. Hachikian
Editor: Julie Garces
Cast: Cuba Gooding, Jr., Malcolm Mays, Richard T. Jones, Paula Jai Parker, Carlton Byrd, LisaGay Hamilton, Dennis Haysbert, Kevin Hendricks, Rachae Thomas, Jordan Calloway
Synopsis: LIFE OF A KING is a dramatic retelling of the unlikely true story of Eugene Brown and his one-man mission to give inner-city kids in Washington D.C., something he never had — a future.
During his 18-year incarceration for bank robbery, Eugene Brown (Cuba Gooding Jr.) discovered a multitude of life lessons from the game of chess including to always “Think Before You Move.” After his release and re-entry into the workforce, Eugene developed and founded the “Big Chair Chess Club” to share these lessons and to get kids off the streets and working towards a future they never thought they’d have.
From his daring first chess lessons to a group of unruly high school students in detention to the development of the Club and the teens’ first local chess competitions, Eugene struggled to be both friend and mentor to his students. Standing up for them against abusive parents and the lure of easy money selling drugs, Eugene Brown’s story is that of a difficult, inspirational journey changing the lives of a group of teens with no endgame.
