Kurt Russell, Eddie Cahill, patricia Clarkson, Noah Emmerich, atrick O'Brien Demsey, Michael Coristine, Bobby Hanson
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Directed
by: Gavin O'Connor
Written by: Eric Guggenheim
Produced by: Mark Ciardir, Gordon Gray, Ross Greenburg,
Justis Greene, Jon Mone, Greg O'Connor
Distributor: Buena Vista Pictures |
US:
02/06/04
UK: 00/TBA/04 |
True
story of coach Herb Brooks (Russell), who in 1980 had
the distinction of having been the last player cut from
the U.S. hockey team the last time the team won the
Gold at the Olympics (in 1960). Brooks got his chance
at being part of a medal-winning team, however, when
he led the U.S. hockey team to victory over the Soviets
(who had won the medal the last four times: 1976, 1972,
1968, and 1964 since that 1960 U.S. win) at the 1980
Winter Olympics at Lake Placid despite overwhelming
odds. For a country still entangled in a decades-long
"Cold War" with the U.S.S.R., the sports victory
was seen as patriotic and symbolic of "our side"
beating "their side." |
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Make
it... and they will come. America has an endless fascination
for Baseball movies. This will probably spill over into
Ice Hockey with this true inspiring tale of overcoming
all odds to win. |
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"I
prefer a man in a hat... and nothing else."
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