At 80 minutes in length, "How to Win at Checkers (Every Time)" is either a long short film or a short full-length film. No matter how you want to classify it, its length is appropriate. It's based on two short stories by Rattawut Lapcharoensap and adapted by writer/director Josh Kimi into a rite-of-passage film.
Oat (Ingkarat Damrongsakkul, as an 11-year-old boy, and Toni Rakkaen, as an adult), when we first meet him, is a youngster in a poor section of Bangkok. He looks up to his older brother, Ek (Thira Chutiku), who earns next to nothing working at a local dive bar.
Movie title | How to Win at Checkers (Every Time) |
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Release year | 2015 |
MPAA Rating | NR |
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Summary | Coming-of-age story in Thailand touches upon brotherly love, homosexual love, issues of class, deception, and poverty. Despite a lot of great ingredients, the final dish is still missing something. |