Official Movie Website Theatrical Release 06/01/07 Home Video 09/18/07 MPAA Rating Rated PG-13 for brief sexual content Running Time 1 hour 30 minutes Genre Drama, Sports Director Davis Guggenheim Writer Karen Janszen, Lisa Marie Peterson Cast Elisabeth Shue, Dermot Mulroney, Carly Schroeder, Andrew Shue Studio Picturehouse |
GRACIE
SYNOPSIS
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.
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.
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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. -- ©
Picturehouse
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. -- ©
Picturehouse