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TITLE Ice Castles (1979)

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DISABILITY Blind

COUNTRY USA

LENGTH 109

GENRE Drama

DIRECTOR Donald Wrye

CAST Lynn-Holly Johnson

Robby Benson

Colleen Dewhurst

Tom Skerritt

Jennifer Warren

David Huffman

NOTES A young ice skater on her way to the top and the Olympics

falls badly while skating. She has a blood clot on her brain

which causes a degree of blindness. The film uses out of

focus images to simulate her reduced vision.

Seemingly stuck at home she becomes frustrated and (for

some reason) looks a mess after previously being well

coiffeured. But her dad who had before been a bit

overpowering gets her back on the ice and her old boyfriend

sticks by her.

Eventually she re-enters competitive skating and there's a

sentimental ending at which even her boyfriend has tears in

his eyes.

As so often with these stories there isn't that much to tell and

hence there is a lot 'filling'.

 


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