Ice Castles
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Movie Reviews of Ice Castles
Movie Review: Building dreams can sometimes mean overcoming boulders
Summary: 5 Stars
I purchased this CD because I had once watched the movie on TV what seems like a hundred years ago when life was indeed simpler. This is a "clean cut" film about a young lady who had been ice skating her whole life on a country pond, and learned to love the sport. A local woman who appears to be a good moose hunter, decided she would train her for the nationals. She wore a homemade costume and out-skated the country's best.
A fashionable woman who trains Olympic "wannabes" watched her and decided she was Olympic material. The rest of the movie tells a story about a beautiful girl who was forced to change her "country" outlook on life in exchange for all the glitter and glamor associated with the road to Olympic success. A tragedy, however, changed the rest of her life and she, with the help of a longtime friend, worked to overcome this seemingly impossible hurdle. A wonderful lesson for all of us.
I highly recommend this to anyone who would enjoy ice skating, and a light-hearted romance movie. This film arrived in a timely manner, and in better than expected condition as the vendor described.
Movie Review: Ice Castles
Summary: 5 Stars
I will always remember the first time I saw this movie, in the 1970's! My friend and I cried so much we had to go and get tissues out of the "Ladies" to mop up all the tears. Now it is 2007 and I wanted so much to see this movie again to see if my interpretation of it had changed now that I am nearly 50 and I have gone through so many of life's experiences...this movie stands up now just as strong and just as beautiful as it did 30 years ago!!! That "don't give up" moral is still just as true today, and somehow even MORE true today than it was when I was so much younger. I am so proud of Bobby Benson for his remarkable career since Ice Castles and wish to congratulate him. I will always love this movie and cherish the music and the love displayed by the characters. Even more grateful am I that, now that I could not buy the movie anywhere in Australia, I have been able to cry my heart out again thanks to Amazon.comMovie Review: Exceptional Story
Summary: 5 Stars
I first saw this when it was relatively new. I had serious doubts that anything staring Robbie Benson would amount to anything--I was wrong. Now years later I saw it again, on Christmas Day. Back then I thought it was good. I now know this is a great film. Not every scene is perfection, but a majority of it is. One thing I noticed on second screening, was there was more to this story than a girl overcoming obstacles and the odds. There are two other important elements which I think raises this film as great: the intricate play between power and innocence, and a finely woven dramatic fear of abandonment. These themes run through all of the characters in the film--not just the girl. This same Christmas I started reading Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's THE YEARLING . While I didn't do this on purpose, I was surprised to find that they tell essentially the same story.
Movie Review: SENCILLAMENTE PRECIOSA!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Una verdadera delicia es ver este filme que practicamente nos deja con un nudo en la garganta; la historia de la patinadora que de la nada se hace increiblemente famosa, se convierte en promesa para las olimpiadas y que, de pronto, en el mejor momento de su llegada a la fama, sufre un terrible accidente que la deja casi ciega e incapacitada. Gracias a un coraje sin igual, una tremenda lucha contra la invalidez (aun contra si misma) y a unos seres queridos (su padre, su novio y su protectora)que lo haran todo por amor, lograran lo IMPOSIBLE!!!; una de esas peliculas que llevan la etiqueta de "INOLVIDABLE" con letras mayusculas!!, yo la primera vez que la vi fue en el cine, y francamente me hizo llorar... desde entonces he aprovechado toda oportunidad para verla de nuevo, pues es de esas peliculas que no se cansa uno nunca de verlas.Movie Review: Still a Favorite...
Summary: 5 Stars
I saw this movie in 1978 when it premiered...and fell in love with it. I have since had the movie on Beta, VHS, and now DVD. I also have had the soundtrack on cassette and CD. This is one of my "feel good movies" that I pull out when I'm feeling a little down and want to escape for a few hours and return to a time in my life when things were much easier and less hectic.
As an aside, if you're an "Everybody Loves Raymond" fan, the song, "Through the Eyes of Love" was the song that Debra would sit and listen to and have a good cry over. I know that's what I do!
This is still one of the best ice skating movies out there.