I, Tonya (2017), Love and Saucers (2017), The Red Mill (1927), Wintertime (1943), Suspense (1946), Ice Castles (2010), Happy Landing (1938), One in a Million (1936) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Ice Skating movies.
Storyline: From the proverbial wrong side of the tracks in Portland, Oregon, former competitive figure skater Tonya Harding was never fully accepted in the figure skating community for not inherently being the image of grace, breeding and privilege that the community wanted to portray, despite she being naturally gifted in the sport athletically. Despite ultimately garnering some success in figure skating being national champion, a world championship medalist, an Olympian, and being the first American woman to complete a Triple Axel in competition, she is arguably best known for her association to "the incident": the leg bashing on January 6, 1994 of her competitor, Nancy Kerrigan, who, unlike Tonya, was everything that the figure skating community wanted in their representatives. Her association to that incident led to Tonya being banned from competitive figure skating for life. Tonya's story from the beginning of her figure skating life at age four to the aftermath of the incident is presented...
Plot Keywords: figure skater, ex-husband, competitor, friend, mother, athlete, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The story of David Huggins, an unassuming 72 year-old who claims to have had a lifetime of encounters with otherworldly beings - including an inter-species romance with an E.T. woman (with whom he lost his virginity to), and chronicled it all in surreal impressionist paintings. Are his experiences dream, hallucination, or could they be reality?—Brad Abrahams
Plot Keywords: ice skater, figure skater, coach, boy, rival, emotional, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Tina works as a barmaid at the Red Mill Tavern and is at the mercy of volatile and bad tempered owner, Willem. Dennis is a visitor to the area and Tina soon falls in love with him. Dennis doesn't share her feeling and leaves only to return later on. He becomes interested in Gretchen, the Burgomaster's daughter. However, Gretchen, about to enter into an arranged marriage with the Governor, is in love with Captain Jacop Van Goop. Tina and Gretchen enter into an elaborate masquerade in order to be with the men they each love.—jodlyn
Plot Keywords: barmaid, tourist, young woman, captain, governor, hilarious, mushy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Nora and her uncle get railroaded into spending the night at a broken-down hotel in Canada. After Nora falls for the handsome owner, she convinces her uncle to invest in the inn and modernize it. After the hotel opens, Nora's uncle faces financial ruin and her romance hit a snag in the form of pretty reporter.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
Plot Keywords: ice skater, hotel owner, partner, photographer, father, singer, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The proprietor of an ice-skating revue promotes a peanut-vendor at the show to a management position based on suggestions he made to improve the act of the show's star, who also happens to be the owner's wife. However, he soon begins to notice that his new manager is paying more attention to his wife than he believes is appropriate, and begins to suspect that his new manager has designs not only on his wife but on his business. Meanwhile, someone from the new manager's past shows up with information that could wreck his plans.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: stranger, business owner, wife, ex-girlfriend, coworker, tense, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Alexis Winston is a young girl who dreams of becoming a champion figure skater. The road to becoming a champion is tough and forced to leave her family behind and eventually causes the break up between her and her boyfriend. While practicing, Alexis suffers a terrible accident that takes her sight and threatens to destroy her dreams. In the midst of feeling sorry for herself she finds herself falling in love all over again with her boyfriend in Nick who (with help from her family) helps her to realize that she can still fulfill her dreams.—Michael Higgins
Plot Keywords: family, figure skater, boyfriend, heartwarming, inspiring, minnesota, love triangle ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Bride's Fair in a small Norwegian village is interrupted by the forced landing of Jimmy Hall and Duke Sargent, two Americans lost - really, really lost - while flying from New York to Paris. Jimmy is the manager of Duke, a publicity-seeking band leader. An old superstition points to Duke as the appointed husband-to-be (not likely) of Trudy Ericksen, daughter of villager Herr Ericksen. Duke, however, has an understanding with Flo Kelly back in the states, and leaves for Paris. Trudy follows him to New York, only to find he has left for Florida with Flo. Jimmy takes Trudy skating in Central Park, falls in love with her and is so impressed that he gets her a contract to skate professionally. Duke hears of her success and flies back and begins a series of romantic entanglements.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: band leader, manager, ice skater, girlfriend, charming, lighthearted, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: American theatrical manager (Menjou) discovers Henie preparing for the Olympics in Switzerland and brings her to Madison Square Garden.
Plot Keywords: ice skater, manager, reporter, wife, comedian, secretary, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The son (Romero) of a department store owner enrolls the store's sports clerk (Henie) at a university to use her as an advertisement for their fashion department. She falls for a teacher (Greene) and gets expelled.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: teacher, son, storekeeper, young woman, campy, charming, university ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A high-school bookworm transforms into a swan. Brainy Casey Carlyle has never quite fit in. Caught between her fantasy of becoming a championship figure skater and her strong-willed mother, who has her on the fast track to Harvard, she can only hope to be like Nikki, Tiffany and Gen--three elite skating prodigies who are ruthlessly competing on the US National circuit (and have attitudes to match). But when Casey gets the chance to train with Gen and her coach, a disgraced former skating champion who also happens to be Gen's mother, she must dash her own mother's hopes in order to pursue her dream. Now, with only the support of Gen's teenage brother, a hunky Zamboni driver, Casey takes on the challenge of her life when she finds herself competing against the best to make it into the championship circuit and become a real "ice princess."
Plot Keywords: figure skater, rival, mother, coach, brother, uplifting, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Marine, James Murfin, is unaware of Icelandic customs. When he flirts with Katina her Icelandic family take his actions as a proposal of marriage to Katina. Desperately wanting out, James gets his buddy to help him. Good Luck!—Kelly
Plot Keywords: corporal, marine, ice skater, fiancé, boyfriend, friend, lighthearted ...
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