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Summary: This is one of the best movies I've ever seen.
Review: It was sad but yet a good movie for the entire family
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Summary: classic
Review: My dadcalled it the most underrated movie of all time.It is a beautiful,touching,and inspirational story,encouraging triumph over adveresity.Since I was 7 I watched it heaps of times for many years.I do not watch it anymore though as I like just to laugh.
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Summary: Still Great After All These Years!!!
Review: My wife and I both agree that this is one of the best romance/overcoming great difficulties movies ever! I am 37 now and still remember the movies premiere like it was yesterday. I find it's love story refreshing...it is clean and clear unlike most modern movies. Show it to your kids...let them feel good and shed some tears together!
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Summary: Still Great After All These Years!!!
Review: My wife and I both agree that this is one of the best romance/overcoming great difficulties movies ever! I am 37 now and still remember the movies premiere like it was yesterday. I find it's love story refreshing...it is clean and clear unlike most modern movies. Show it to your kids...let them feel good and shed some tears together!
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Summary: Adorable hooey....I hate to say it, but I LOVE this movie!
Review: Ok, it's 25 years later. We're all older, jaded, and not so mushy-gushy anymore. Nuff said. I remember vividly the day I saw this at the Alpine Theater in Brooklyn during a very rainy day in 1978. I had started skating in 1976 after Dorothy Hamill captured the gold. My mother's secret crush on Robby Benson led us to the theater. (I think that was the only time we agreed on a moive--EVER.) The message--despite the feathered hair, bell bottoms, and over-eager acting--is a positive one. When great people with strong beliefs come together for one goal? Amazing things will happen. And it's not completely untrue that blind people don't skate. There is a skating club for the legally blind. Brian Boitano works with them. One more thing: yes, that's Lynn Holly-NOT a body double-doing all those skating moves: she was a silver medalist in the Novice division of the US Nationals in 1974. After skating on what turned out to be a hairline fractured leg, she gave up competing and became a featured performer with Ice Capades. She also skates in "For Your Eyes Only", but that's another review...Ice Castles is a quiet gem brought gorgeously back to life via DVD. Even if you're not a skater, go get it. Love and miracles? Hey, it could happen! ;-)
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Summary: Chick Flick
Review: Seriously. It's a good movie that even sensitive guys can enjoy.
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Summary: Get Out Your Hankies!!
Review: Terms of Endearment on Ice.....This film is a box of Kleenex waiting to be consumed. Farfetched, poorly acted, but it all hurts oh so good! A must have for families with young skaters. My daughters (9 & 11) LOVE this movie!Besides, its a chronicle of early Tom Skerritt!
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Summary: Marilyn Monroe review of Ice Castles!
Review: This is on of the few ice skating movies out there! It starts in Iowa I believe,"Nick, what are you doing here!" "Beats the heck out of me!" with snow and ice, Lexi is trying to get to her first ice skating competition,"Come into the corner, the circles arent good enough!" Beaulah trains her, her dad won't let her go. Bealauh convices the dad to let her go!-Bealuah--"I won the regionals" dad---"25 years ago!" bealah--"Your killing her,... your gonna hold her so tight your gonna suffocate her!" and does very well, catching the eye of a coach, who grooms her for the olympics. She starts winning every competition, and gets cocky and cheats on her boyfriend Nick, then right before the olympics she crashes trying to do a triple because her coach told her not to, Lexi was mad and jumped too high and is blinded in the crash. She becomes an invalent"Your just like the rest of us, another darned invalent!" Her friend Beaulah tries to bring her back, her dad cant understand why Lexi is in her shell and Bealuh says to Him "You.......sittin out there, holdin on the her like some darn doll!" "she says what's the point in her graduating from high school and thats the least she can do, she can at least graduate from high school!" Bealah----"Why!" dad----"Oh your a great galdarn help Bee! EVERYBODY'S GOTTA DO IT JUST once in her life, well she did it just once!" Bealah--DON'T YOU START UP with me Marcus Winston don't you dare start up with me!" and she comes back and skates one more performance blind, but the crowd does'nt know, they throw flowers and she doesnt see them during her victory skate, "Lex! The flowers!" and she crashes. now the crowd knows she's blind, and they cheer and applaud. The skating routines are very good, and even if your not Scott Hamilton, you could really get something from her skating.Buy this one!Thank you Amazon!
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Summary: A Feel Good Movie you'll watch again and again,
Review: This love story is the epitome of Winners never Quit and Quitters never Win! A behind the scenes look at the skating world, a side that most people don't know about. A big thumbs up!!!!
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Summary: Inspirational. Must see. This movie will keep you humble.
Review: This movie is a must see. Particularly if you're a skater and if you're not, you're going to wish you were. This movie is one of the most unforgettable movies I've ever seen even though I was only ten years old when I saw it for the first time. I could watch it over and over and cry every time I do. Now at the age of 35, it continues to touch my heart with its sweet innocence. The main character Lexi who's a naive small town girl is more talented than she relizes, and more talented than her father (Tom Skeritt) realized. However there are two people who acknowledged her talent. One, which was her childhood boyfriend (Robbie Benson) who thought the sun, rose and set around Lexi. She could do the most uncomplicated, straightforward move on the ice and he thought she was startling. They were best friends and shared an innocent, childlike, pure wholesome love for each other. The other person was Lexi's coach who truly recognized her talent for what it really was. She wanted Lexi to attend a competition however needed to persuade Lexi and her father that Lexi was exclusive and that her ability was of a caliber greater than they could ever imagine. As difficult as it was, her overprotective father let her go. Lexi proved to be successful repeatedly in one competion after another. Soon she became popular within the skating group. Lexi was somebody now within the prestigious group of skaters and coaches. This went to her head and started to lose that sweet innocence which made her so special. She became overconfident, smug and cheated on her boyfriend Nick with someone who was a recognized body within the skating crowd. Nick was no longer politically correct for Lexi. He was now just a small town nobody. During a posh skating gathering Lexi's passion to skate took over as she gazed intensely out over the dimly lit shimmering, iridescent ice surface. Every skater understand how such an ice surface is almost hypnotic and draws you to it. It allows you to be free to express your inner self and to be one with the ice. For a skater it's the only place you can truly do that and be completely fulfilled and gratified doing it. This movie depicts a skaters passion and dedication for the sport so well it unbelievable. While Lexi skated so elegantly from the heart, and skating in the manner she was meant to skate, she noticed her new friends admiring her from up above. Suddenly, Lexi's egotism became apparent and tainted her beautiful natural style. She was no longer skating for the love of the sport, or from the heart. She was cocky, trying to impress her new friends who were shallow themselves. Lexi became overconfident and as a result received serious injuries that would change her life forever. The prestigious skating crowd soon forgot Lexi as she could no longer skate. She returned to her hometown to the people who truly loved her. They stayed by her side to get her through this horrible adjustment,including her boyfriend Nick. Nick was able to get Lexi back on the ice. He worked hard with her as he knew Lexi's zest for life was skating. Without her skates, Lexi was nothing. Miraculously, Lexi skated again. Lexi skated comfortably and gracefully on the ice just like she used to. The crowd wasn't aware of her disability and that's the way Lexi wanted it. She wanted to be judged fairly and on her ability. She didn't want to get the sympathy vote. When Lexi's solo was over, the crowd cheered for her. It was apparent, Lexi won the competition without a doubt. She received a standing ovation and Lexi was alive again. However, there was one factor Nick and Lexi overlooked in order to keep her disability a secret. When Nick realized their oversight, he was fearful for Lexi, and as a viewer, you will be too.The crowd was astonished by what they saw. The building went silent. Lexi scared, and feeling lost cried out. Her reliable Nick walked out onto the ice and helped her up off the ice. The crowd cheered even harder for Lexi as she left the ice surface with Nick on her arm. This is truly a story of triumph over tragedy. As a result of this movie, the theme song "Looking through the Eyes of Love" by Melissa Manchester was the most popular song in the skating world. Every skater at one time or another no doubt skated to it as it carries such a powerful message. It's absolutely beautiful.
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