Movies starring Sean Nelson

It opens with images of a late-night poker game: cards, chips, sweaty palms, concerned faces, and a woman's fingernails. Then, as night turns to day, the camera moves into the streets of New York, and, with the first bit of dialogue, we know we'v...

Never has chess been a more apt metaphor for life than in Boaz Yakin's feature debut, Fresh. Like Lawrence Fishburne in Searching for Bobby Fischer, Samuel L. Jackson sits in New York's Washington Square playing speed chess and dispensing valu...