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Miracleis a 2004 American sports film directed by Gavin O'Connor and written by Eric Guggenheim and Mike Rich. It is about the U.S. men's ice hockey team, whose gold medal victory in the 1980 Winter Olympics over the heavily favored seasoned Soviet team was dubbed the "Miracle on Ice". Kurt Russell stars as head coach Herb Brooks with Patricia Clarkson and Noah Emmerich in supporting roles.

Herb Brooks, head ice hockey coach at the University of Minnesota, interviews with the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) for the national team coach's job, discussing his philosophy on how to beat the dominant Soviet team who have won the gold medal in the previous four Olympics, calling for changes to the practice schedule and strategy. The USOC is skeptical, but gives Brooks the job.

Brooks meets assistant coach Craig Patrick at the tryouts in Colorado Springs. Brooks selects a preliminary roster of 26, indifferent to the preferences of senior USOC hockey officials. USOC executive director Walter Bush believes Brooks has their best interests at heart, and reluctantly agrees to take the heat from the committee.

During the initial practice, tempers flare as forward Rob McClanahan and defenseman Jack O'Callahan get into a fight based on college rivalry. After the fight, Brooks tells all the players that they are to let go of old rivalries and start becoming a team. He has each player tell their name, hometown and which team they play for. As practices continue, Brooks uses unorthodox methods to reduce the roster to 20 players. The players themselves worry about being cut at any time, knowing that Brooks himself was the last player cut from the US squad that won the 1960 Olympic gold medal, so he will do anything to win.

In the medal round, the Americans were overwhelming underdogs to the Soviets, who lost only a single Olympic game since 1964 and whose players were professionals, whereas the American players were amateurs.[2][3] The Soviets had scored the first goal before O'Callahan, having healed enough from his injury, enters the game for the first time. He heavily checks Vladimir Krutov on a play that leads to a goal by Buzz Schneider. The Soviets score again to retake the lead. Soviet goalie Vladislav Tretiak stops a long shot by Dave Christian, but Mark Johnson gets the rebound and ties the game to end the period.

Gavin O'Connor directed, and Mark Ciardi produced the movie. Both are drawn to inspirational stories, and they decided to take on the "Greatest Sports Moment of the 20th Century".[4] They chose to focus on the determination and focus of coach Herb Brooks. O'Connor knew from the beginning that he wanted to cast Kurt Russell as Herb Brooks because he needed someone with an athletic background and a fiery passion for sports. The casting of the team consisted of real hockey players to give the film a raw and accurate feel. O'Connor figured it would be easier to teach hockey players to act than to teach actors to play hockey. On-ice tryouts were held in New York, Boston, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Toronto, and Vancouver. Another tryout was held in Vancouver for the Soviet and European teams.

There are a total of 133 different hockey plays in the film. To accomplish this, the directors turned to ReelSports Solutions, who had helped with the producers on a previous movie, The Rookie. The ReelSports team referred to coach Herb Brooks for information on practices, plays, equipment, and uniform styles. Each fight and stunt scene was choreographed to ensure the actors' safety. Players went through a six-week training camp to relearn the game in older equipment.[5]

All the locations of the real life hockey games are replicated by hockey arenas in British Columbia. The team tryouts, set in Colorado Springs, were filmed at the Queen's Park Arena in New Westminster. The team practices were filmed at the M.S.A. Arena in Abbotsford. The exhibition game in which the USA team lost to the USSR team at Madison Square Garden was filmed at the Pacific Coliseum, former home of the Vancouver Canucks. The Exhibition against Norway, the subsequent bag skate, and all Olympic game scenes were filmed at the PNE Agrodome.[6][7]

Al Michaels re-recorded most of his television commentary for the film. However, the last 30 seconds of the USA-Soviet game, including "Do you believe in miracles?" used the original audio, as Michaels didn't feel he could re-create the call effectively.[8]

Coach Brooks died in a car accident half a year before the movie was released. At the end, before the credits, it states, "This film is dedicated to the memory of Herb Brooks, who died shortly following principal photography. He never saw it. He lived it."

On Rotten Tomatoes, Miracle has an approval rating of 81% based on 166 reviews, with an average rating of 7/10. The site's critical consensus reads: "Kurt Russell's performance guides this cliche-ridden tale into the realm of inspirational, nostalgic goodness."[11] On Metacritic the film has a weighted average score of 68 out of 100, based on 36 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[12] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale.[13]

Elvis Mitchell of The New York Times stated that the movie "does a yeoman's job of recycling the day-old dough that passes for its story."[14] Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times referred to the movie as "a classically well-made studio entertainment that, like The Rookie of a few years back, has the knack of being moving without shamelessly overdoing a sure thing."[15] O'Callahan said in an interview that while the fight between him and McClanahan was fictional, the film accurately portrayed the "pretty intense" rivalry between Boston Terriers and Minnesota Gophers players, and was overall "pretty darn close" to actual events.[16]

As of May 2023, Miracle was rated the number six sports movie of all time with a rating of 9.06 out of 10 at Sports In Movies, after maintaining the number one spot for several years.[17]

So I was watching the movie Miracle (the story of the 1980 US Olympic hockey team) right after the election, because I like hockey and I like that movie. And maybe I needed a little something to help me feel slightly better about my country.

Interestingly, the standoff ends at the two-thirds mark in the movie. The last third is dedicated to the story of Ron Hartley (Jasen Wade), a police officer who is struggling with his faith in God because of the awful things he has seen in the line of duty.

However, at the end of The Cokeville Miracle, the police officer gets spiritually fixed. He returns to the community and adheres to its beliefs and practices. The family comes back together, but misses an important opportunity to understand each other better.

In some ways, Freetown (directed by Garrett Batty of The Saratov Approach) is a conventional faith-promoting, based-on-true-events story: a group of missionaries miraculously escapes war-torn Liberia into Sierre Leon. But the movie also breaks just about every rule in the faith-promoting-genre handbook.

The film depicts the violence perpetrated during this time with startling directness. Some rebels leap from a truck in front of a man riding on a scooter, beating and then shooting him (off screen). Later, a missionary accompanies a husband who leaves his wife and daughter with some other refugees in a church house in order to find some food. The husband is shot on his way back as the missionary watches. The missionary trudges into the church house carrying a sack of food but unaccompanied; the wife looks up and begins to weep as her unsuspecting daughter sleeps in her lap.

But the most frightening scene is when two missionaries are captured with a few other people and shoved against a wall. The rebels go down the line, identifying some of their victims as Krahn. And then, as the camera abruptly shifts to obscure our view, the rebels shoot them.

Can a man involved with genocide be a believer? Freetown seems to take the radical approach of defining a believer as any deeply imperfect soul: perhaps blind and destructive, but still on an unpredictable, eternal, and entirely personal journey of his or her own.

Stephen Carter is the director of publications at the Sunstone Education Foundation and author of Virginia Sorensen: Pioneering Mormon Author. He is the recipient of the 2023 Smith-Pettit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Mormon Letters.

We examine and express the rich spiritual, intellectual, social, and artistic qualities of Mormon history and contemporary life. We encourage humanitarian service, honest inquiry, and responsible interchange of ideas that is respectful of all people and what they hold sacred.

There was much skepticism when it was announced that the 1980 US Olympic hockey team's 4-3 win over the Soviet Union was going to be made into a movie. We all remembered that weak attempt on TV with Karl Malden, and knew that hockey movies were generally bad. Casting Kurt Russell as Herb Brooks was another issue. And Disney was involved.

But we were wrong.

What really sets "Miracle" apart from "The Mighty Ducks" and "Mystery, Alaska" is the guys in the skates. I mean, casting real hockey players and getting them to act like, well, hockey players is a no-brainer. It was also pretty neat to see Nate Miller on the big screen. I wonder if Chris Harrington calls him "dad?" Then there's Russell nailing Brooks from his Eastside St. Paul accent and inflections to his mannerisms and checkered pants. (Hey, I had a pair of those, too. I have the pictures to prove it.)

Sure, there was some artistic license taken, like the plane hitting a moose (it was a telephone pole), and Mike Eruzione stopping a sadistic back-and-forth drill with his "I play for the United States of America" exultation. But, really, the whole premise of college kids beating seasoned veterans is in itself far-fetched. The first time I saw the replay, 20 years after it happened, I was wondering if the right tape was in the machine. That's how overclassed the US was. And still won.

What the movie does is show us how the team got there. How Brooks molded "the right players" over a period of nearly a year to beat an opponent that seemed impossible to stop. In an age where many get their beliefs from the cinema (how many formed an opinion on the Kennedy assassination after watching JFK?), it's important that we see there were near-impossible odds against the US that winter afternoon of Feb. 22, 1980.

Now, don't get me started about the inaccuracies. That could fill a couple of websites. But does it matter that Ken Morrow was portrayed clean-shaven? That the net behind Jim Craig had a water bottle on top? That none of the movie was filmed in Lake Placid? That USSR coach Viktor Tikhonov was shown massaging his eyebrows? That Al Michaels' play-by-play was redone to have him referring to John Harrington's line as the "Conehead line?" OK, that one was awful and shouldn't have been done. It could have been much worse. They could have redone the broadcast to look like 21st century ESPN (which indeed was around in 1980), with the graphics and the swooshes and the over-the-top announcers.

"Miracle" is one of the best sports movies ever made, even though there really isn't much sports action in the film. Only the hard-core amateur hockey fan will find fault in it (what? No mention of Herbie calling Valeri Kharlamov "Stan Laurel?"). But it will never replace Slap Shot as the top hockey movie ever. That one is an original, and can't be duplicated. Ever see Slap Shot 2? Don't.

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