Life of a King (2013) on Netflix
After eighteen years in prison, Eugene Brown returns to Washington, D.C., where work is scarce and his daughter keeps away. A detention room full of unruly students becomes his chess club.
- Netflix4.3/5
- IMDb6.9/109,925 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes43%
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Plot summary
Eugene Brown leaves prison after eighteen years and returns to Washington, D.C., where his record makes work hard to find and his daughter, Katrina, wants little to do with him. A friend finds him a job as a janitor at a high school, and when the principal, Sheila King, needs someone to watch a detention room, Eugene takes it. The students deal drugs and ignore the rules, but Eugene gets them to sit down. He wins a bet with one of them and the prize is that they learn chess. Tahime and Clifton, two students who run drugs for a man named Perry, sit in on the games, and Eugene tells them they are pawns for a king called Perry. Perry does not want the detention room cutting into his sales.
Cast
- Alani Ilongweas Clifton (as Carlton Byrd)
- Jaida - Iman Benjaminas Rhonda
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Life of a King (2013)
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- Life of a King tells the true story of Eugene Brown, an ex-convict who founded the Big Chair Chess Club for inner-city youths in Washington, D.C.
