Brooklyn Castle (2012): cast, story & where to watch

Released in 2012, Brooklyn Castle is a documentary film directed by Katie Dellamaggiore, running about 101 minutes.

What it’s about. Brooklyn Castle is a documentary about I.S. 318 – an inner-city school where more than 65 percent of students are from homes with incomes below the federal poverty level – that also happens to have the best, most winning junior high school chess team in the country. (If Albert Einstein, who was rated 1800, were to join the team, he’d only rank fifth best.) Chess has transformed the school from one cited in 2003 as a “school in need of improvement” to one of New York City’s best. But a series of recession-driven public school budget cuts now threaten to undermine those hard-won successes.

Who’s in it. Brooklyn Castle stars John Galvin as Himself, Elizabeth Vicary as Herself, Rochelle Ballantyne as Herself and Pobo Efekoro as Himself, among others.

How it landed. With an audience score of 6.8/10, Brooklyn Castle has drawn a solid, mixed-to-positive response.

Where to watch. In US you can stream it on fuboTV and rent or buy it from Amazon Video and Apple TV Store. See the full, country-by-country breakdown on our where to watch Brooklyn Castle page.

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