Netflix: Ice Castles
Okay, it is completely my fault that I watched this. The description was too good to pass up:
Considered too old for a professional ice-skating career, 16-year-old Alexis (Lynn-Holly Johnson) nonetheless triumphs to become a champion. Tragically, she falls and suffers a brain injury that leaves her nearly blind. With the help of her father (Tom Skeritt) and her boyfriend, Nick (Robby Benson), Alexis attempts, against all odds, to again become a top-ranked skater in director Donald Wry's Oscar-nominated romantic drama.
The only good thing about this movie was Lynn-Holly Johnson. Seriously. Colleen Dewhurst and Tom Skeritt were at their usual worst, and Robby Benson's character just made me want to barf. But Lynn-Holly Johnson, who is apparently a professional ice skater, is also a pretty darn fine actress. Her blindness was believable - how often does that happen?!
The story itself, frankly, sucked. If I had a dollar for every hokey minute in that movie, I'd be buying a new iPod Shuffle. It just wasn't enjoyable...a sense of glurge permeated the whole thing. (Which, again, was quite apparent in the description.)
Oh, there was one other good thing - all the funny 70's hairstyles on all the girl skaters. Ha!
Considered too old for a professional ice-skating career, 16-year-old Alexis (Lynn-Holly Johnson) nonetheless triumphs to become a champion. Tragically, she falls and suffers a brain injury that leaves her nearly blind. With the help of her father (Tom Skeritt) and her boyfriend, Nick (Robby Benson), Alexis attempts, against all odds, to again become a top-ranked skater in director Donald Wry's Oscar-nominated romantic drama.
The only good thing about this movie was Lynn-Holly Johnson. Seriously. Colleen Dewhurst and Tom Skeritt were at their usual worst, and Robby Benson's character just made me want to barf. But Lynn-Holly Johnson, who is apparently a professional ice skater, is also a pretty darn fine actress. Her blindness was believable - how often does that happen?!
The story itself, frankly, sucked. If I had a dollar for every hokey minute in that movie, I'd be buying a new iPod Shuffle. It just wasn't enjoyable...a sense of glurge permeated the whole thing. (Which, again, was quite apparent in the description.)
Oh, there was one other good thing - all the funny 70's hairstyles on all the girl skaters. Ha!
