Miracle (Widescreen Edition)

I remember the day that the US hockey team beat the Russians, and I needed a feel good story. I enjoy Olympic Games and movies about them as well and this was perfect for my needed feel good movie.

What a fantastic movie, such a great story. I remember that Olympics but had forgotten so much and didn’t really know the back story.

good

I'm a major hockey fan but I've waited forever to watch this movie, worrying that it might be too sappy or disappointing in some other way. Turned out to be perfect. It is heartwarming and inspiring but not sappy. Kurt Russell did a great job as the coach and all of the other actors were great too. It was amazing that they could find such a great group of actors to portray the hockey players. From my point of view they were all really good actors.

Classic

Title says it all.

The Cold War, a 40-year pi$$ing contest between the world's capitalist and socialist superpowers came to an end in 1991 with more of a peep than a bang. And be thankful for that. We flushed money down the toilet building up a nuclear arms race to epic fail proportions. And then came the gas shortages, unemployment, the South American Contra affair, hostages in Iran, Soviets in Afghanistan, and everybody still reeling from Watergate and Vietnam, the world was just having a bad hair day (but compared to the last 3 years I'd say it was a walk in the park).Then the Olympics rode into a little upstate New York town called Lake Placid, and something earth shattering happened. No, it wasn't Armageddon. It was a hockey game. And the good guys won! USA! USA! USA! And the NHL is barely a blip on the American pro sports radar compared to the NFL, NBA, MLB- hell even the PGA gets better airtime! But that's not the point, 20 collegiate nobodies managed to convince an entire country that we can do anything... provided that we had a coach to play mind games and beat our a$$es into the ground 95% of the time.Herb Brooks was a unique individual. This grandfatherly man who knew the Latin scientific names of shrubbery was a terror on the college hockey circuit. He was also its best coach. Reading like a Greek tragedy, this Minnesotan tempest in a whirlpool bath was the last man cut from the gold medal winning 1960 Olympic hockey team. In short Herbie had a sick bone to pick with USA Hockey. Meanwhile behind the Iron Curtain, the USSR having picked itself up from the ruins of WW II, the mighty Red Sports Machine produced hockey teams that would sweep every Olympic gold medal and nearly every world title from 1964 on. Herb Brooks got his most ardent wish and got a shift for USA Hockey profiling all the "right" players over the "good" ones to challenge the Soviets.Now I was a bit leery when I saw the Disney logo plastered all over the trailer. The last thing we needed was some Mickey-Mouse-tooth-rotting-happy-go-lucky-afterschool-special-behind-the-scenes-REHASH of 1980 USA hockey. I also wasn't confident of Kurt Russell's (he's from Massachusetts- OH THE IRONY!) ability to portray Brooks, especially since he died after the completion of principal photography. Then I saw two interesting things: 1) PG-13 rating- OOH! Adult Disney! 2) A TRUCKLOAD of hotties! Disney got the 16-25 female range in their crease (because if you saw the original team pic, the real guys weren't so... photogenic). But it was kismet for angry pucknuts since the NHL 2004-'05 lockout left a bad taste in their mouths, so they got themselves a gold medal cookie to nibble on for Miracle's 2/6/04 premier. And it was a success.I can't give this flick 5 stars because I felt (along with other angry fangirls- NOT PUCKBUNNIES!) that Miracle contained false advertising. All those wonderful scenes with the team you see in the trailer and extras were left to rot on the cutting room floor. I know the story is ESSENTIALLY about Herb Brooks, but it took 20 special guys to make this miracle happen. With the exception of Eddie Cahill (who is a dead-ringer for a twenty-something Jimmy Craig who was a good looking man... from the right angles) all those guys were hockey players (and Billy Schneider IS Buzzy's son). So Disney if you're going to double dip with this Blu-Ray crapola, you'd better get together with Gavin O'Connor for surgery and splice those scenes back in! I'd like to know a little more about Rizzo, Mac, Jimmy, O.C., Bah, Buzzy, Silky, Rammer, Jannie, Coxie, and Magic, because their stories are worth the $22 you want to steal from me. Besides, the fanfics are lacking.

Family film

Perfecto

Arrived early and was left in our safe placeDVD was top quality

Es una película que se debe de ver en familia, no una vez sino varias.

Une histoire tellement belle un vrai miracle tellement c'est formidable

there aren't i lot of movies that can bring a tear to my eyes but this one certainly did. Kurt Russell was at his acting best i highly recommend this film