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Release Date: January 17, 2014<\/p>\n

\u201cLife of a King\u201d opens in theaters in the following cities:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Queens, NY, Atlanta, Charlotte, Cincy Newport, Columbus, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Kansas City, Omaha, Orlando, Philadelphia, Raleigh, Tampa & Tulsa<\/p>\n

Distributor: Millennium Entertainment
\nDirector: Jake Goldberger
\nScreenwriters: Jake Goldberger, Dan Wetzel, David Scott
\nProducers: Tatiana Kelly, Steak House, Valerie Stadler, Mary Vernieu, and Jim Young.
\nDirector of photography: Mark Schwartzbard
\nProduction design: Michael Fitzgerald
\nMusic: Eric V. Hachikian
\nEditor: Julie Garces
\nCast: Cuba Gooding, Jr., Malcolm Mays, Richard T. Jones, Paula Jai Parker, Carlton Byrd, LisaGay Hamilton, Dennis Haysbert, Kevin Hendricks, Rachae Thomas, Jordan Calloway<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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 \u201cThink Before You Move.\u201d After his release and re-entry into the workforce, Eugene developed and founded the \u201cBig Chair Chess Club\u201d to share these lessons and to get kids off the streets and working towards a future they never thought they\u2019d have.<\/p>\n

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\u2019 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\u2019s story is that of a difficult, inspirational journey changing the lives of a group of teens with no endgame.<\/p>\n

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