Gracie
Updated: 2007-06-04 09:25

Set in 1978, a teenage girl 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. Living in South Orange New Jersey, 15 year old Gracie
Bowen is the only girl in a family of three brothers. Their family life revolves
almost entirely around soccer: her father 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, 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,
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.
Production Status:
Released
Genres: Drama and Sports
Running Time: 1 hr. 32 min.
Release Date: June 1st, 2007 (wide)
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for brief
sexual content.
Distributors: Picturehouse
Production Co.:
Elevation Filmworks, Initial Entertainment Group, Ursa Major Films
Filming Locations: New Jersey, USA
Produced in: United States
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