The Opera Game

2019

Biography / Documentary / Drama

IMDb Rating 6.1/10 10 53 53

biography

Plot summary

The tortured life of Paul Morphy (1850s New Orleans chess prodigy) is examined.

Director

Monty Ross Photo
Monty Ross

Top cast

Peyton Wich Photo
Peyton Wich as Young Edward Morphy
Clarke Peters Photo
Clarke Peters as Narrator
Lucky Johnson Photo
Lucky Johnson as Mason
Jaqueline Fleming Photo
Jaqueline Fleming as Malvina
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657.25 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 11 min
Seeds 4
1.19 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
NR
ca  de  us  es  fr  it  nl  pl  pt  sv  cz  ar  cn  ja  
23.976 fps
1 hr 11 min
Seeds 5

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by lesleyalexis 10 / 10

Gem

We found this to be refreshing; a wonderful hidden figure story. It was great to be introduced to this story, with beautiful imagery and wonderful acting. Well done.
Reviewed by Grave_Rob 2 / 10

Horrible across the board (pun intended)

Reviewed by Screen_O_Genic 7 / 10

Morphy Would Have Gone Crazier Had He Seen This Flick

A Hallmark-type period piece on the great Chess legend, "The Opera Game" is a melodramatic take on the life of "The Pride and Sorrow of Chess", Paul Morphy, the great American Chess phenom who dominated the Chess world from his pre-teens to young adulthood, defeating the best players of the United States and Europe then retiring from active play into a life of unfulfilled promise and tragedy. A made for television production the film shows its format with its faint and light laidback tone touching on Morphy's youth and dramatizations with the backdrop of the genteel sights and sounds of 19th Century New Orleans.Alas, if only the film were truly about the great man himself. After Morphy's early successes in the U. S. A. And on the eve of his future triumphs in the Old World which further cemented his legend the viewer is dragged and plunged kicking and screaming into a quagmire of pc and woke revisionisms. Instead of depicting Morphy's dramatic and memorable encounters in Britain and France not to mention his brilliancy in Chess (that's what the film is about, remember?), the viewer is subjected to a frivolous love triangle where the Morphy portrayed is unrecognizable from the one who actually lived and a cast and a plot so pc you'd think you're watching "The Color Purple" or "Roots" instead.If you want to make this tolerable, forget about Morphy and Chess and see this as another Hollywood crank reflecting the times. With its occasional amateur acting, lazy research, barely there accents and ubiquitous millennial agenda this passes as watchable. You've been warned.
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