Knight Moves Plot Summary and Details

Plot

This murder mystery from director Carl Schenkel stars Christopher Lambert (Highlander) as Peter Sanderson, an expert chess champion. When a woman Sanderson has recently slept with is among several women brutally murdered at a chess tournament, he becomes a suspect. But when the murderer contacts Sanderson and informs him that he's set up a maniacal human chess game, he realizes that he'll have to beat the murderer to stop the killings and clear his own name. Diane Lane plays a psychologist who falls for Sanderson, and Tom Skerritt is the local sheriff investigating the case. Knight Moves won the Critics Award at the 1992 Cognac Film Festival.

MPAA Rating:

for strong violence and sexuality, and for language.

Genre(s):

Crime and Mystery,Drama,Thriller

Run Time:

105min.

DVD Release Date:

02/20/2001

Distributor(s):

Columbia Pictures

Director(s):

Carl Schenkel