Sunday, November 25, 2007

ICE PRINCESS


In ICE PRINCESS Casey Carlyle needs a great idea for a physics project, one that demonstrates her knowledge and conveys her personality. Michelle Trachtenberg stars as Casey, a bright girl who loves skating but is more assured in the classroom than on the ice. For her scholarship project she incorporates her passion for physics and ice skating. The more time Casey spends at the rink, the more she wants to try being a competitive figure skater, much to the objections of Joan Cusack as her academic-minded mother.

This is a story of a girl with a dream, but it is also the story of two mothers with dreams for their daughters, both based on dreams of their own that did not come true. Casey's mother wants her daughter to become a brilliant scholar. Tina was once a figure skating champion who made a mistake that cost her a chance at an Olympic gold medal. She wants her daughter Gen to get the gold medal she could not have. She thinks she knows what it takes to survive in competitive skating.

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