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Gracie

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Gracie reviews
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8.7 User Score:

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Movie Info

Genre(s): Drama

Written by: Lisa Marie Petersen
Karen Janszen
Andrew Shue (story)
Davis Guggenheim (story)

Directed by: Davis Guggenheim

Release Date:
Theatrical: June 1, 2007
DVD: September 18, 2007

Running Time: 95 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: PG-13 for brief sexual content

Starring Carly Schroeder, Elisabeth Shue, Dermot Mulroney, Andrew Shue, Jesse Lee Soffer, and Joshua Caras

Set in 1978 and based on true events, Gracie is an inspirational film about a teenage girl who overcomes the loss of her brother and fights the odds to achieve her dream of playing competitive soccer at a time when girls' soccer did not exist. (Picturehouse)

What The Critics Said

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75

The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias

There's a reason the underdog sports formula is followed over and over: When it's executed as skillfully as it is here, the damned thing works every time.

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75

Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold

A familiar but rewarding little parable.

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75

Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey

Guggenheim doesn't bring much visual style to the game. But he brings heart (and some Bruce Springsteen on the soundtrack) to the story of a lost Jersey girl redeemed by sport. Yeah, I cried. And cheered. You will too.

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63

Boston Globe Ty Burr

An inspirational sports movie, soccer subdivision, and it stops at every expected station of the cross on its road to the triumphant against-all-odds finale (in sudden-death overtime, yet). Yet it also feels appealingly handmade in a way most jock dramas don't.

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63

ReelViews James Berardinelli

For all its faults, Gracie is made with enough grace to get us rooting for the protagonist.

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63

Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips

Dermot Mulroney takes the largest male role, that of the driven ex-soccer star and patriarch of the onscreen family. From certain angles he looks like a Shue too.

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63

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

The New Jersey locations and soundtrack help ground the story in a particular time and place, and Schroeder delivers a terrific performance.

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60

Los Angeles Times Lael Loewenstein

An earnest, well-acted, poignant drama that nevertheless runs afoul of sports movie clichés.

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60

The New York Times Jeannette Catsoulis

A familiar underdog story told with unusual sensitivity.

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60

Washington Post Desson Thomson

Directed by Davis Guggenheim ("An Inconvenient Truth"), the movie is heavy on hokum but easy to like, thanks to the spunky Schroeder.

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60

Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek

A gentle, easygoing picture -- it's not exactly dramatically gripping, but somehow, its spirit carries it through.

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50

Miami Herald Connie Ogle

Guggenheim managed to turn a Power Point presentation into a crowd-pleasing Academy Award winner, but he can't do much to free Gracie from its constraints and clichés.

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50

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen

Falls into the category of heart-warming sports yarns, and, if television still made movies-of-the-week, it would enjoy a rightful home.

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50

USA Today Claudia Puig

Gracie is ably played by Carly Schroeder, and the tale of her uphill battle to play competitive soccer is based on the youthful activism of actress Elisabeth Shue. Shue was the first person in her New Jersey community to break down the hurdles erected to keep girls from the sport.

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50

The Hollywood Reporter Sheri Linden

For all the personal ties to the material, the film too often reaches for broad-strokes inspiration in a way that feels generic.

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50

Village Voice Michelle Orange

Firing on all formulaic cylinders, Gracie is heavy with tidy meaning and mealy morality; the most dubious idea here is that if you don't let a girl play soccer, she just may turn to cigarettes, halter tops, and sex with the starting forward

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50

Variety Joe Leydon

Modestly engaging but thoroughly predictable.

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50

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

You miss the knockabout edge of "Bend It Like Beckham" -- though the ending, in its Pavlovian sports-flick way, pumps you up.

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50

Chicago Reader J.R. Jones

The genuine sense of loss and nicely observed family details don't stand a chance against the generic buildup to the big game.

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50

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

A nicely confident Schroeder strides though the movie as if it's a masterpiece, and Mulroney is equally charismatic. But they can't quite save Gracie from feeling like a vanity project that will appeal mostly to middle-school soccer teams, and various extended members of the Shue family.

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50

Portland Oregonian Stephen Whitty

The script is simply shameless, taking some of the details of the Shues' lives and then slathering them with a thick layer of Hollywood frosting.

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50

Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach

Gracie is painfully earnest, which might be OK were it not also painfully trite, painfully cliched and painfully formulaic.

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40

Austin Chronicle Toddy Burton

There's a lot of angry prejudice toward women playing soccer in the film, and a semi-fun "Footloose"-esque scene in which Gracie petitions the school board for the freedom to play. But melodrama reigns supreme as the film disintegrates into movie-of-the-week predictability.

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38

New York Post Kyle Smith

Considering that Gracie says nothing that hasn't been said in dozens of films, one does wonder whether Hollywood is being as diligent as it could be in digging up fresh story ideas.

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25

San Francisco Chronicle Peter Hartlaub

Sporadic on-field violence is only a tiny reason that Gracie disappoints, but it's indicative of the film's greater problem. Producers Elisabeth and Andrew Shue seem so intent on creating a hero out of the main character and villains out of almost everyone else, that they've completely distorted reality.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 8.7 (out of 10) based on 14 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Hannah C. gave it a10:
This movie was amazing! It was extremely inspirational, even for those who don't play soccer. And for that person who said "inspirational sports movies are boring" they obviously have no life and are complete retards as to not be moved by this film.

Chad S. gave it an8:
As the July issue of Playboy featuring gold-medal winning Olympic swimmer Amanda Beard is due to hit the stands any day now, suddenly, this slight entry to the inspirational sports movie genre seems seismic in its importance. Although "Gracie" overgeneralizes a bit(soccer is not a preventive measure against teen pregnancy), it does do a decent job of capturing the social mores of the recent past, when female athletes were largely marginalized on the basis of their sex. Carly Schroeder(the girl from "Mean Creek" is all grown up now; keep your clothes on Carly) doesn't convince you of her athleticism through her on-field exploits(credit the editor); she does it with her face. This is a very good young actress. Beard's decision to disrobe is a tragic one; so utterly antithetical to the spirit of Title IX and all the young girls who said, "F*** cheerleading. I wanna play," you just want to slap her. There's a moment in "Gracie" that speaks volumes about the positive ramifications of women gaining full access to an arena that was previously the domain of men. It's a small scene, but a key one, in which Gracie stands in front of a full-length mirror; not to check on the progress of her boobs, but rather, the muscles she had developed on her biceps from weight-training and chin-ups. If it wasn't for Title IX, the life of a certain young teenage girl might've turned out differently. Who would Ralph Macchio take to the arcade in "The Karate Kid"?

Mark H. gave it a9:
Despite the cliches, this is a good Hollywood sports hero story. Its been told thousands of times before, but it never gets old especially when you have a plucky heroine who refuses to give in to those telling her to quit. I admit I am a sucker for these plots and surrender easily to the emotions of the characters struggling to triumph...especially when they win just before the final credits....

Blanco A. gave it a6:
It's a fun little movie, certainly on the high end of cliched sports flicks. Carly is great in her role, and I really liked what Mulroney does with his part. It's pared down and real - not predictable. A really good family film, especially for families with athletic daughters.

[Anonymous] gave it a10:
Best movie i've seen in a long time

[Anonymous] gave it an8:
Highly effective underdog sports drama.

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