In addition to Carly Schroeder's performance, the highlights are its honesty, willingness to show real family struggles, and the gradual way Gracie achieves success.
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09/17/07
Gracie (2007)
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Reviews Counted:88
Fresh:52
Rotten:36
Average Rating:5.8/10
Consensus: Gracie can be rousing and touching in spots, but is ultimately undone by its predictable story arc and a lack of nuance.
Runtime: 2 hrs 35 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Set in 1978, 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’... [More]
Starring: Carly Schroeder, Dermot Mulroney, Elisabeth Shue, Andrew Shue
Director: Davis Guggenheim
Reviews for Gracie
Gracie strives to be G.I. Jane in shin guards, but it ends up as She's the Man without the comedy.
05/30/07
It would be easy to dismiss this drama about a high school girl who goes out for the boys' soccer team as something we've all seen before. But that would be ignoring the movie's plucky appeal.
05/31/07
If you competed in high school athletics, you might be able to overlook that Gracie is just another formulaic, if well-intentioned, sports movie.
05/31/07
There's nothing startling about Gracie per se, but it manages to do formula without becoming too formulaic, be a feel-good flick without being feel-good gooey.
05/31/07
Disintegrates into movie-of-the-week predictability.
05/31/07
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.
05/31/07
Gracie is painfully earnest, which might be OK were it not also painfully trite, painfully cliched and painfully formulaic.
06/02/07
Does Gracie work as a movie? Just close enough, and closer still for a young soccer player who may already know her sports movie clichés but also recognizes when they touch on something once and truly felt.
06/01/07
One need not harbor a deep and abiding passion for soccer in order to connect with is likely to be the summer of 2007’s most honest and emotionally rewarding movie.
06/01/07
The genuine sense of loss and nicely observed family details don't stand a chance against the generic buildup to the big game.
05/31/07
It's a sweet and uplifting film, and though quite predictable, gives us a family drama that showcases simple truths about overcoming seemingly impossible odds and leaves you with a warm and very satisfying feeling deep down.
06/01/07
Top CriticGracie does hold you, in its oversimplified and sentimental way, and it deals with a real issue in semi-real fashion -- half-Hollywood, half-actual life, or something like it.
05/31/07
This labor of love from the Shue siblings is a better than average sports movie. More than that, it's about a family pulling together to help one member achieve her dream.
06/07/07
Gracie is a rousing sports film that ultimately earns that lump in your throat.
05/30/07
More charming and enjoyable to watch than it deserves, primarily because the performances transcend the script flaws.
06/02/07
The movie treats Gracie as a cause rather than an impassioned athlete.
06/25/07
Unfortunately, this is one of those times when keeping a family scrapbook would have been far more effective.
05/31/07
In real life, Elizabeth Shue was quite the activist, the first person in her New Jersey community to break the gender barrier in soccer: this is her charming(fictionalized)story.
05/02/07
Screenwriters Lisa Marie Petersen and Karen Janszen pile on so much fake-feeling dramatic tension that they muck up an already perfectly compelling story about a strong young woman.
06/01/07
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