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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD Brand: Team Marketing EAN: 0794043109911 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC Item Dimensions: Label: New Line Home Video Languages: Manufacturer: New Line Home Video MPN: TM2640 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: New Line Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: September 18, 2007 Running Time: 97 minutes Studio: New Line Home Video Theatrical Release Date: June 01, 2007 Editorial Review: Product Description: 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! Amazon.com: 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 Average Rating:
 Rating:  - GracieGracie, 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 ... Read More Rating:  - enjoyable despite the clichesWhen 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 ... Read More Rating: - An Incredible family film!"Gracie" is not just another feel good `underdog' film! It is the true story of the Shue family (Elizabeth Shue and brother, Andrew, are both in the film) that touched me more deeply once I learned this fact. A young girl is desperate for the love of her father, who dotes on his athletic boys as he coaches them to play soccer. When Gracie's soccer-star brother is killed in a tragic accident, she becomes determined to try out for the boys' soccer team and asks her father for help. This is ... Read More Rating:  - A Good Family MovieGracie is a New Jersey teenager, but her problem is that she was born a girl into a family of soccer playing boys. When her naturally talented brother is killed in a car accident Gracie tries to honor his memory by wanting to try out for the Varsity high school soccer team. Unfortunately, this is 1978 and girls aren't allowed to play on a boy's team. Not only does she have to now fight the school board, but she has to force her he-man father to take her seriously and to train her like he does the boys. ... Read More Rating: - Review of the movie "Gracie".I thought the movie "Gracie" was excellent. The movie showed how dreams in a person can inspire one to triumph over outside walls. It was truly an inspirational movie which anyone would enjoy. Carly Schroeder was excellent in the movie. Having read an interview about her, it was easy to understand why she made this movie. We need more movies like this to portray good positive images! |
