Miracles (Disney) - 9/10

I have been wanting to see this Disney movie for quite a while. It stars Kurt Russell as Herb Brooks, who in 1980 had the distinction of having been the last player cut from the U.S. hockey team. That team turned out to be the last team to win the Gold at the Olympics (in 1960). For a twenty year period until he led the U.S. hockey team to victory over the Soviets (who had won the medal the last four times: 1976, 1972, 1968, and 1964 since that 1960 U.S. win) at the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid despite overwhelming odds.

Overall I loved this movie. It does not so much focus on the game of hockey as it does the overwhelming mental and emotional game played between the coach, the team, patriotism and winning. Herb Brooks believed 100% his team would win, and this movie shows very well the steps and sacrifices he had to make to convince his team of it. The pace of the movie was very good and even the at home family scenes helped show the coaches determination. The play on the cold war was accurately portrayed with a real sense of how life was influenced by it back then, and how the coach tried to keep it out of hockey.

its a great movie that I can not wait to buy on DVD now so I can watch it again, and well at least its not the tenant.