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Lupita Nyong’o – you KNOW we are fans of hers on here. In this movie, “Queen Of Katwe,” she plays a mother who hopes her daughter (Fiona, played by Madina Nalwanga) can have a better life (away from the impoverished Katwe township). The vehicle that will take her baby out of the slums? Chess!

A young girl from Uganda trains to become a world chess champion.

David Oyelowo plays the chess coach; a missionary and life coach of sorts. He teaches life lessons with those chess pieces and playing board; and hopes that his young prodigy Fiona wins the game… not just chess, but the game of life.

(In theaters September 2016.)

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