Gracie

Guggenheim doesn't bring much visual style to the game. But he brings heart (and some Bruce Springsteen on the soundtrack) to the story of a lost Jersey girl redeemed by sport. Yeah, I cried. And cheered. You will too.Read Full Review »

For all its faults, Gracie is made with enough grace to get us rooting for the protagonist.Read Full Review »

An inspirational sports movie, soccer subdivision, and it stops at every expected station of the cross on its road to the triumphant against-all-odds finale (in sudden-death overtime, yet). Yet it also feels appealingly handmade in a way most jock dramas don't.Read Full Review »

A gentle, easygoing picture -- it's not exactly dramatically gripping, but somehow, its spirit carries it through.Read Full Review »

Directed by Davis Guggenheim ("An Inconvenient Truth"), the movie is heavy on hokum but easy to like, thanks to the spunky Schroeder.Read Full Review »

An earnest, well-acted, poignant drama that nevertheless runs afoul of sports movie clichés.Read Full Review »

A familiar underdog story told with unusual sensitivity.Read Full Review »

You miss the knockabout edge of "Bend It Like Beckham" -- though the ending, in its Pavlovian sports-flick way, pumps you up.Read Full Review »

Gracie is ably played by Carly Schroeder, and the tale of her uphill battle to play competitive soccer is based on the youthful activism of actress Elisabeth Shue. Shue was the first person in her New Jersey community to break down the hurdles erected to keep girls from the sport.Read Full Review »

Firing on all formulaic cylinders, Gracie is heavy with tidy meaning and mealy morality; the most dubious idea here is that if you don't let a girl play soccer, she just may turn to cigarettes, halter tops, and sex with the starting forwardRead Full Review »