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Gracie
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Meet Gracie Bowen, she's your average, ordinary 15-year-old girl, except for one thing: she's determined to play varsity soccer... on the boys' team! But when her school forbids her to play and even her family questions her ability, Gracie sets out on extraordinary quest to prove them all wrong. Fighting to change the school's policy and facing off against some of the toughest competitors on the soccer field, Gracie must summon all of her strength and courage, to finally show the world that a girl with a dream can do absolutely anything!DVD Features:
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Both on-screen and off, Gracie is an inspiring family affair that turns real-life tragedy into a spirited tale of fortitude. With former Melrose Place star Andrew Shue serving as producer and playing a supporting role, and his actress sister Elisabeth Shue (Leaving Las Vegas) in a supporting role, this modest, $10 million independent production was directed by Elisabeth Shue's husband, TV veteran Davis Guggenheim (director of Al Gore's global-warming documentary An Inconvenient Truth), and loosely inspired by the death of the Shues' brother, Will. Elisabeth Shue's successful late-1970s campaign to replace her late brother on his high school soccer team serves as the basis for this appealing, no-frills drama about Gracie Bowen (Carly Schroeder), an athletic New Jersey teenager whose soccer-star brother is killed in a car accident. Against the wishes of her initially unsupportive parents (Dermot Mulroney, Elisabeth Shue), she pays tribute to her brother by pursuing his place on her high school's boy's soccer team. The year is 1978 (with Boston's "Don't Look Back" and other '70s hits on the soundtrack), and girls' soccer doesn't yet exist in American high schools, but Gracie's determination pays off, and without attempting to reinvent the wheel, Gracie emerges as a satisfying, emotionally authentic story of personal perseverance. In a role that all teenage girls will relate to, Schroeder (a seasoned child-star veteran of soap operas and sitcoms) gives a quietly forceful performance that's sure to boost her Hollywood profile, and the fine supporting cast and a sensibly-written screenplay keep Gracie from becoming the maudlin tear-jerker it might have been. Gracie isn't a great film by any means, but for all its familial heart and soul, it deserves to be called a winner. --Jeff Shannon
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Item Specifications...
Record Label New Line Home Video
Format Closed-captioned / Color / DVD / Full S
Dimensions: Length: 7.45" Width: 5.38" Height: 0.56"
Weight: 0.25 lbs.
Binding DVD Video
Publisher New Line Home Video
ISBN 0780657926
EAN 9780780657922
UPC 794043109911
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 | Gracie Jul 13, 2009 |
This movie is by no means a little girl movie. It has way too much mature subject matter (sex, drugs, alcohol, and etc...). That being said, it stayed true to its real life events (that most of us would rather have left back then) events of 1970 era.
This is not a movie to watch if you want to learn new ground breaking sills, techniques, drills and insight for soccer. Sadly, the over-the-top recreations of the lack of girls sports and the reactions of the boys (and worse yet the way her female contemporaries treat her as well!) is thrown in your face.
This is a movie to see if you want to learn about the spirit of one special girl's heart to succeed in soccer after the tragic death of her brother.
Thanks for reading.
Tim | | |  | Kids and Parents will love this movie! Jun 16, 2009 |
Gracie is a movie about a teenage girl, Gracie Bowen, in the late 1970s who can play soccer or football just as well or better than her brothers. In this film which is loosely based on Elisabeth Shue who plays the mother and school nurse's own life, the film is very Disney without the Disney quality. There is only one curse word and it's not one of the bad ones used twice. There are few scenes where she is kissing a boy and a guy in the car down the shore before her father catches her. The film was filmed on location in Northern Jersey like South Orange where Elisabeth and Andrew Shue were raised and Maplewood. The story about Gracie Bowen has lessons to teach and inspire today. It's a shame that it's rated PG-13 because I think schools should show this movie. It's not really driven by cliches.
Gracie is a movie that you can watch with your family too. The story of a teenage girl who loves the game of football/soccer and who decides to carry on her older brother, Johnny's legacy. He was the star athlete in the family and the two had close bond. I think Elisabeth Shue and Dermot Mulroney are perfectly casted and suited in the roles of the parents that they are very believable. The Bowens are a working class family. He works for a moving company but loves the game and was a star athlete. He cares for his elderly father who lives with them and Gracie's two younger brother.
Gracie has to compete and prove herself time and time again against the star athlete who wants her and does everything possible to make it difficult for her to fill her brother's place. Her best female friend who is terrified that her affiliation with Gracie will label her as an outcast and her best male friend who doesn't know what he has until it's gone.
I was one of the lucky people to see this film in the movie theatre maybe because I wanted to see what they filmed in New Jersey. I thought it was charming and worth watching again even for television or in the classroom. This film could have been a huge hit if it wasn't the rating. A lower rating and more publicity could have made this film a sleeper hit.
Regardless watch the credits until the end, you will understand why Elisabeth Shue is who she is today in part thanks to playing the game. The star, Carly Shroeder, does an excellent job without being over the top as Gracie. Andrew Shue plays a coach in the film too. | | |  | Great movie for soccer fans Jan 12, 2009 |
| Watched it with the family- loved it! There are a few scenes where we chose to cover my 10-year olds eyes-- teenage kissing, promiscuity, smoking... but a great inspirational story, especially for soccer girls (and boys). In my opininon, best suited for age 12 and up. | | | | Gracie Aug 7, 2008 |
| Gracie, a strong, determined, athletic 15 year old who loves soccer and is determined to play. This movie shows how the family deals with the loss of Johnny, the 17 yr old soccer star. Bryan, the father (D. Mulroney), immersed in his own grief, eventually uses his love of soccer as the only way he knows to reach his daughter, Gracie, who is starting toward destructive behavior in her efforts to deal with the loss of her brother, also her best friend. Johnny encouraged Gracie in soccer and had a lot of confidence in her skills. The movie also shows a lot about soccer skills that Gracie develops under the watchful eye of her father who becomes her coach. The whole family is involved. The music is very repersentative of the time including two Bruce Springteen songs that he allowed as it takes place in NJ, his home state. I love it...all of it. | | | | enjoyable despite the cliches Apr 30, 2008 |
When high school soccer star Johnny Bowen is killed in a car crash, his grieving kid sister vows to keep his memory alive by taking his place on the team. But first Gracie will have to overcome the strenuous objections of both the coach and her own misogynistic father to her plan.
Although it has many of the hallmarks of a Lifetime Original Movie - souped-up gender conflict, an overdose of sentimental uplift, and a plucky, inspirational heroine at its core - "Gracie," which is set in late 1970's New Jersey, transcends many of its stereotypes and cliches through heartfelt performances, unpretentious writing and earnest direction.
Carly Schroeder has grit and charm to spare as the indomitable Gracie, while Dermot Mulroney and Elizabeth Shue acquit themselves nicely as her ultimately supportive parents.
It`s true that "Gracie" provides us with nothing we haven't seen a thousand times before - from "The Karate Kid" to "Bend it Like Beckham" - but inspirational-sports-movie fans should still find themselves cheering on this latest underdog story. | | | Write your own review about Gracie
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