Hatley High

The Canadian teen comedy Hatley High sends up high school sports rituals by placing a most unlikely competitive game at the center of its story: that of chess. Tommy (Nicholas Wright) is a new arrival in his parents' hometown of Hatley whose mother recently died. He discovers after the fact that his mom was once a chess pro and thus a legend in the community. Tommy's chess-fixated peers accept him almost instantly inferring that he must have inherited his dear mother's skills but in time Tommy carves out a niche for himself independently of his mom's legacy and strikes up an enduring romance with Hyacinthe (Rachelle Lefevre) a "chess cheerleader." Two fictional British filmmakers "frame" the tale by filming it for a documentary that they are producing and thus provide witty ongoing narration.