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’ soccer did not
exist. Based on true events from the lives of the Shue
family (producer and co-star Andrew Shue, Academy Award®-nominated
actress Elisabeth Shue), the film is directed by Academy
Award®-winning director Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient
Truth), who happens to be part of the family as well, being
married to Elisabeth Shue. The film also features a terrific
1970's soundtrack including classic songs from Boston,
Blondie, Aretha Franklin, and the Boss, Bruce Springsteen.
Living in South Orange New Jersey, 15 year old Gracie Bowen
(Carly Schroeder) is the only girl in a family of three
brothers. Their family life revolves almost entirely around
soccer: her father (Dermot Mulroney) and brothers are
obsessed with the sport, practicing in the backyard's
makeshift field every day from morning ‘til night. Tragedy
unexpectedly strikes when Gracie's older brother Johnny
(Jesse Lee Soffer), star of the high school varsity soccer
team and Gracie's only protector, is killed in a car
accident.
Struggling with grief over her family's loss, Gracie decides
to fill the void left on her brother's team by petitioning
the school board to allow her to play on the boy's high
school varsity soccer team in his place. Her father, a
former soccer star himself, tries to prove to Gracie that
she is not tough enough or talented enough to play with
boys. Her mother, Lindsey Bowen (Elisabeth Shue) already an
outsider in the sports-obsessed family, is no help either.
Undeterred, Gracie finds reserves of strength she never knew
existed, and persists in changing everyone's beliefs in what
she is capable of, including her own. Gracie not only
forces her father to wake up from his grief and see her as
the beautiful and strong person that she has always been but
she also brings her family together in the face of their
tragedy.
©2007 Picture House. All rights reserved.
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