Background
My family lived in Brazil from 1991-1996 and we did most of our banking down there. My parents, being foreigners and not speaking the launguage and all, tried to open a savings account -did it incorrectly and lost some of the money the process (prob only like $200). 3 years later we found out that the money was never "lost" but put into some type of mutual fund and now had $800-ish. So my missionary parents did the only sensible thing that you can do when you get a surprise income. They bought a humongous TV!
This TV was awesome and had the "SAP" feature (remember, this was in 1995, and we were in Brazil). Brazilian TV was all dubbed in Portuguese, but if you put it in SAP it would turn it to the original language, so we could watch all of the American shows in English! Well for some reason, when we put it on SAP, the shows would be in English, but all of the commercials would be in Spanish, not Portuguese.
One of the commercials on Brazilian cable would be for a movie called "Searching for Bobby Fischer". But the commercial was in Spanish, "En Busca de Bobby Fischer".. and I couldn't understand what they were saying, so in my 13 year old head, this movie was a mystery movie about a child abduction. Bobby Fischer was a little boy who was kidnapped and his mother and father looked for him every where and couldn't find him and it destroyed their marriage. I was dying to see this movie. Where was Bobby Fischer?! Who took him? Did they ever find him? Maybe they found him when he was an adult, and the story had a happy ending? Who would kidnap a child!? I probably saw this commercial a million times but the movie was never on when I was watching TV! Or it had already started or something and I wanted to watch the whole thing.. Well, the goal of watching this movie was pushed a side by my desire to be cool and hang out with high-schoolers while I was still 13, so I quickly forgot about this movie, and moved on with my life.
Flash forward to 2013.
I am searching through Netflix and what do I find?! None other than "Searching for Bobby Fischer" I added into my insta-queue, where it was quickly passed over for bigger and better things. So when Meeker went out of town, I thought it would be the perfect movie to watch on a Saturday afternoon. So, I am watching, and watching... and no one's name is Bobby.. and no one is getting kidnapped.. and they keep playing chess. and more chess...chess chess CHESS! about half-way through, I realize.. this movie has nothing to do with Kidnapping.. Turns out, Bobby Fischer is a famous chess player, and the movie is about "A prepubescent chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer." (thank you IMDB ).. so yah..quite different from my original interpretation of the Spanish trailer. I was a little disappointed. The actual story line was okay- a little long...I organized my kitchen while it was playing...
But, Seriously.. how can you have a cover box like this and not be about getting kidnapped...
