Miracle (Widescreen Edition)
by Gavin O'Connor
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Actor: Kenneth Welsh, Kurt Russell, Noah Emmerich, Patricia Clarkson, Sean McCannDirector: Gavin O'Connor
Brand: RUSSELL,KURT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 136 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-05-18
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Walt Disney Video
DVD Reviews of Miracle (Widescreen Edition)
DVD Review: THE Hockey Movie
Summary: 5 Stars
"Miracle" is much more that just a true account of an improbable and what should have been a virtually impossible - upset gold medal victory - in the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid. Like a perfect storm the chronicles of Herb Brooks (an intriguing and remarkable man) and the 1980 US Olympic Hockey Team is more than just a "story". At a time when the Rissian threat was real and in the midst of the cold war, a bunch of amatuer, rag tag - but talented - US "kids" from college - beat the unbeatable and the "professional" Red Army / USSR Hockey team. It shouldn't have happenned - but coach Brooks conviced his inferior but hard working kids - that they COULD. The casting is as good as the movie - all players / actors in the movie that were cast played hockey at some level. Being from Boston I could relate to the local players and their families who sacrificed so much for the opportunity to play on this team. Kurt Russell is excellent as Coach Brooks. My favorite scene is when Mike Eruzione (the team captain) decides to respond to coach Brooks while the team is being taught "a lesson." The team comes together and Brook's plan as coach does too. You don't have to love hockey to enjoy this movie - but any kid that ever played at any age or at any level MUST see this movie. It is as inspiring as any movie you will ever see! DVD Review: Very Realistic Hockey Scenes Help Make This A Winner
Summary: 4 Stars
This was a pretty nice movie overall. I appreciated the realistic hockey scenes and the inspiring true-life story of an amazing underdog sports team pulling off the "miracle." That, of course, was the 1980 United States Olympic hockey team winning the gold medal and along the way becoming the first team in 20 years to defeat the Soviets.
The story also is about Herb Brooks, the coach of the team. Everything in here centers around him. Kurt Russell does a nice job playing him, although I don't understand the Polish accent Russell used. Why would Brooks have a Polish accent?
Over the years, sports movies - as in other genres - are becoming more and more realistic. This was about as good as it gets in that regard. A number of the actors are players, meaning they know how to skate. A documentary with the DVD shows the great lengths they went to in filming this in order make the action look realistic. It's not fake; these guys know how to play the game and the camera-work, along with the sound, is outstanding.
The only part of the film that was totally unnecessary was the typical cheap shots against Republican Presidents while airing an inspirational speech by Democrat Jimmy Carter. Even if a hockey film, Disney Liberals just have to be in the viewers face with political bias. Too bad because otherwise it's a good sports movie that even non-hockey fans should enjoy.
DVD Review: Hockey movie
Summary: 5 Stars
Just what I expected. Quick shipping. I was very pleased with my transaction.DVD Review: BEST MOVIE
Summary: 5 Stars
THIS IS ONE OF THOSE MOVIES THAT REMINDS US ALL HOW GREAT THE REAL AMERICAN SPIRIT CAN BE, EVEN AGAINST ALL ODDS!!!!!!!!!!DVD Review: Rousing, 'come from behind" hockey movie
Summary: 5 Stars
I am not a sports fan. Period. I'll watch the occasional few minutes of Michael Jordan in a tense playoff or a fantastically close Super Bowl on occasion, but beyond that, I have no interest.
I do find few movies about the fanatics who drives themselves to excel interesting or the fanatics who drive people to excel, to go far beyond what they themselves thought possible.
That's what "Miracle" is all about, a coach named Herb Brooks who drove a group of mostly collegiate hocky players to fuse into an Olympics winning team, trumping the Soviets, who had won four consecutive championships.
Kurt Russell plays Herb Brooks. What we see is a narrow, driven man who has only one goal: to produce an Olympics winning hockey team through his coaching. And Russell conveys that image beautifully, leaving us with an impressiona of a guy we probably wouldn't want to spend any time with (and, likewise, we would be of no interest to him) who ignored his family and browbeat 20 some kids into submission until they became a functioning team.
It's a great movie about a coach. The players, as they were in the real incident, were submerged to the coach's will and ego. The hockey scenes are exciting. I don't know enough about hockey to comment on their authenticity and, frankly, I don't care.
In the end, it is the story of a driven, selfish man demanding that his recruits obey his every order and become, to a large extent, automatons until they fuse into a single whole, a team. Look closely and you will see the techniques of every successful army since the beginning of time: slavish obediance while preserving the capability to make individual decisions. It worked for Alexander the Great, Julius Ceasar, George Patton and Herb Brooks, when he applied it to hockey.
A lot of the film centers on rah-rah American patriotism which needed a boost after feckless Presidency of Jimmy Carter who cancelled American participation in the 1980 Summer Olympics to "protest" the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. It is a nice feeling to see the United States portrayed positively in a Hollywood movie, for a change.
Overall, "Miracle" is an entertaining movie about an eccentric coach, the team he built and the results they acheived. Best of all, it's a true story.
Jerry
Description of Miracle (Widescreen Edition)
From the studio that brought you THE ROOKIE and REMEMBER THE TITANS comes the movie everybody loves -- MIRACLE. Filled with exhilarating nonstop hockey action and heart-racing suspense, it's the inspiring true story behind one of the greatest moments in sports history - the 1980 United States ice hockey team's triumphant Olympic victory against the Soviet Union. Kurt Russell gives a brilliant performance as the dynamic and determined coach Herb Brooks, who had an impossible dream -- beat the seemingly unbeatable Soviets at their own game. Starting with a handpicked group of 26 undisciplined kids, Brooks coached them to play like they never played before, and turned 20 of them into a team that believed they could achieve the unachievable -- and in the process, united a nation with a new feeling of hope.The miracle about Miracle is that it gets so many details right in telling its 24-year-old story about the historic victory of the U.S. hockey team at the 1980 Olympic Games. It's typical for Hollywood to compromise such period details as hairstyles and fashion when catering to a contemporary audience, but Miracle looks and feels right in every detail, capturing the downbeat mood of post-Watergate America while showing how obsessively determined Minnesota hockey coach Herb Brooks (Kurt Russell) managed to assemble a once-in-a-lifetime team and whip them into a victorious frenzy over their Soviet champion opponents. With sharp support from Patricia Clarkson (as Brooks's wife) and Noah Emmerich (as his long-suffering assistant), Russell grounds the film with a well-balanced combination of aloofness, intimidation, and closely guarded strategy. No doubt the real Brooks (who died in a car accident shortly after filming completed) would have approved. Thanks to director Gavin O'Connor (Tumbleweeds) and the producers of the similarly laudable sports films Remember the Titans and The Rookie, Miracle brings plenty of heart--and historical accuracy--to an old, familiar formula. --Jeff Shannon
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