Great Film: Ice Princess
A Great Figure Skating Story - Growing Up
Just like kids, The Ice Princess is both about growing up as well ass the growing up of juvenile/youth movies. The Ice Princess dances rings around most figure skating movies because perhaps the movie industry is growing up. The focus on skating, on relationships is great and there is some nice skating shots as well as some surprise cameos. Instead of the usual comedy romance genre as in The Cutting Edge, a standard of such movies, The Ice Princess actually focuses on the biting, raw under the surface issues surrounding youth girls and their mothers today. Without stereotypes, without the usual hype, this movie successfully avoids the juvenile movie traps and plays it both softer of the stereotypes and more on the real and the harsher edges of drama in this movie. This an entertaining, educational, well done movie about going for one's potential, about dreams lost and hoped for, about conflict and doubt, about mothers and daughters, about rivalry and sharing. One of the best girl movies this year and last year. Highly recommended. Eight out of Ten Stars.
Cast
- Gen Harwood played by Hayden Panettiere
- Joan Carlyle played by Joan Cusack
- Casey Carlyle played by Michelle Trachtenberg
- Ann played by Amy Stewart
- Mr. Bast played by Steve Ross
- Tina Harwood played by Kim Cattrall
- Teddy Harwood played by Trevor Blumas
