Genre: Comedy (more)
Tagline: "Spinal Tap" on ice!
Plot Summary: Wendy, Veda, and J.C. are part of Southern California's thriving figure skating community - the bottom part...
User Comments: Cute Skating Satire
User Rating: 4.4/10 (72 votes)
Credited cast:
Jason Alexander .... Zamboni Phil
Tai Babilonia .... Regionals Judge #5
Peter Caruthers .... Regionals Judge #1
Marsha Clark .... Skater mom
Steven Cousins .... Regionals Judge #3
Verónica Cruz .... Coutnee Chin
Viveka Davis .... Patsy Cain
Randy Gardner .... Regionals Judge #2
Ron Geren .... Jackson
John Glover .... Yuri Moskivin
Joy Gohring .... Tattle Tail Skater
Meta Golding .... Julie Johnson
Kathy Griffin .... Karen Katz
Scott Hamilton .... Ricky Medford
Chris Hogan .... Prof. Robinson
A.J. Langer .... J.C. Cain
Wallace Langham .... Jimmy Hand
Sabrina Lloyd .... Becky Brooks
Wendie Malick .... Mildred Tilman
Sean Moran .... Dan Wodinski
Bob Rumnock .... Businessman #2
Barret Swatek .... Veda Tilman
Andy Umberger .... Angry Father
Marissa Jaret Winokur .... Wendy Wodinski
Wendy Worthington .... Joannie Wodinski
Kristi Yamaguchi .... Regionals Judge #4
MPAA: Rated PG-13 for language and drug content.
Runtime: 93 min
Country: USA
Language: English
Color: Color (Technicolor)
Sound Mix: Stereo
Certification: Australia:M / USAG-13 (original rating) / USA:R (re-rating) (2003)
User Comments:
etherealtb
Los Angeles, CA
Date: 24 August 2004
Summary: Cute Skating Satire
Judging from some of the comments about this movie, I guess you have to be an ex-skater (or a fan of skating) to appreciate this movie. Yes, it is WAY, WAY over the top, but I think people are missing that it was MEANT to be. I found it a cute and funny film. No, it's not close to one of the greatest mockumentary ever made, but I enjoyed it.
Even though a lot of facts about competitive figure skating are gotten wrong in this movie (deliberately and hilariously so, in some cases) the filmmakers somehow inadvertently got a lot right. While most of these characters are grossly exaggerated for comic affect, I recognize almost all of them. There were quite a few Vedas that I recall: kids who were very good, but didn't give a rat's ass about skating and wouldn't be doing it if their parents (usually but not always their "skating mother") weren't forcing them to. Yes, there were most CERTAINLY mothers as pushy as Veda's mother (some worse, come to think of it and some were even in fur coats) although most of them (thank the Lord) weren't channeling Joan Crawford! Even the friendly and seemingly ever present Zamboni guy (Jason Alexander) is a character I remember. And if you think judges being prejudiced only happens on the international level, well, wake up and smell the coffee!!! There were even a few J.C.'s, girls who couldn't care less about the Olympics, but were working their way towards ice shows. Although you don't have to win Regionals to get into one, you just try out!
Release Date ...: 04/10/24 Movie Year .....: 2001 Ripper .........: Team_NaSaMo Genre ..........: Comedy Rars............: 49 x 15 mb Runtime ........: 01:33:50 Video Codec.....: XviD MPEG-4 Video Bitrate ..: 905 kbps Audio Codec ....: MPEG Layer-3 (MP3) Frame Rate .....: 23.976 Fps Resolution .....: 624x336 Aspect Ratio ...: 1.86:1 Language .......: English Subtitles ......: English / Espanol iMDB Rating.....: 4.4/10 (71 votes) Movie Link .....: [url]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0206184/[/url]
G-13 (original rating) / USA:R (re-rating) (2003)