Director Gavin O'Connor has given us one of the greatest sports movies of all time and the best hockey movie this side of the comedic hockey masterpiece Slap Shot.
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Miracle (2004)
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Reviews Counted:155
Fresh:123
Rotten:32
Average Rating:7/10
Consensus: Kurt Russell's performance guides this cliche-ridden tale into the realm of inspirational, nostalgic goodness.
Theatrical Release:Feb 6, 2004 Wide
Box Office: $64,329,473
Synopsis: From Walt Disney Pictures comes MIRACLE, an inspiring family drama that combines hockey and history in retelling the story of one of sports' all-time greatest upsets. In 1980, amidst the tense... [More]
Starring: Kurt Russell, Patricia Clarkson, Noah Emmerich, Eddie Cahill
Director: Gavin O'Connor
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Reviews for Miracle
The film is about the moment of victory, and what a beautiful moment it was.
03/16/04
The film has many great moments, but dare I say, it's not melodramatic enough.
03/01/04
Like all great sports movies, 'Miracle' is less a study of a competitive contest than it is a character analysis. And ho-hum, another great performance by Kurt Russell.
02/27/04
Gavin O'Connor takes a potentially jingoistic movie and makes it into a challenging little politcal statement--hey, you get the *puck* out of Afghanistan!
02/23/04
It’s a great sports movie that recreates an amazing moment in sports history with no frills.
02/19/04
Although it struggles to reproduce the emotion of the moment, it emphatically reminds us that on one fateful Friday night, the impossible was possible.
02/17/04
If Miracle weren’t so passionate and finally affecting, it would be easy to dismiss its familiarity and overt jingosim as lazy screenwriting.
02/16/04
I admit I know next to nothing about sports. And I loved "Miracle."
02/14/04
If you can tolerate all this phony uplift you'll also get a pretty interesting story about a shrewd Minnesota college coach named Herb Brooks.
02/14/04
Top CriticThat it's so warmly nostalgic and so damn exciting (especially when you consider that, hey, we already know who won that game) is a minor miracle in its own right.
02/14/04
Olympic hockey drama re-creates an unexpected victory and the blood, sweat, toil and tears that made it happen.
02/13/04
[T]humbs up for this uplifting and inspirational movie about one of the great upsets in sports history.
02/13/04
Top CriticAn almost joyless movie...The only miracle is that O’Connor has taken a magnificently unpredictable story and turned it into a predictable one.
02/13/04
While the sundry tensions among players and, especially, between players and coach, provide a modicum of drama, none is pursued to the point of detail.
02/13/04
...what makes the film a cut above is its spectacular camera work and well paced and meticulous attention to detail.
02/12/04
Asking how it ends is like asking whether the boat sinks in Titanic. What makes Miracle special is its respect for every event that precedes the big game.
02/12/04
I would like to have gotten to know some of the players a little bit better.
02/12/04
A basic, feel-good sports movie, but if you like that sort of thing, it isn't too bad
02/11/04
The final sequences are tension filled.
02/11/04
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