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Old 03-27-07, 10:15 AM
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Ice Skating films

Hey folks, I need some help from you expert movie watchers. With the release of Blades of Glory on Friday, I’m putting together a list of ice skating movies for some work I am doing. Any recommendations with films that center around this sport? Thanks in advance!

So far I have:
The Cutting Edge
Disney's Ice Princess
Old 03-27-07, 10:17 AM
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Old 03-27-07, 10:49 AM
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There's only one:

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IMDB lists 172 films containing "ice skating" (this includes King Kong for example). Only 12 of those feature "Figure Skating" and only 20 of the superset feature "competition" so my guess is it will be tough to name more than two dozen titles truly about ice skating if you don't consider hockey.
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Originally Posted by QuikSilver
I’m putting together a list of ice skating movies for some work I am doing.
You have a strange job.
Old 03-27-07, 11:35 AM
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Originally Posted by TheMadMonk
You have a strange job.


Strange Brew and Happy Gilmore come to mind too.
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History of the World Part I
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Here's a guy with WAY too much time on his hands:

http://www.eskatefans.com/movie/
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She's pretty much forgotten today, but three-time Olympic ice skating gold medalist Sonja Henie starred in a series of films for Fox in the 30s and 40s. All of them featured ice skating production numbers ... kind of like the swimming themes of the Esther Williams films for MGM. Several of them look to be available on VHS, but I didn't see any DVDs. At one point IIRC she was Fox's highest-grossing female star.
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Ronin and the reason why I brought up this film is because one of the iceskaters
Spoiler:
gets shot.

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Originally Posted by Apone
Ronin and the reason why I brought up this film is because one of the iceskaters
Spoiler:
gets shot.
Damn, beat me to it.

There are skating scenes in The Long Kiss Goodnight and Beautiful Girls. I also want to say Six Weeks but it has been too long since I have seen it.

Edit: There is a skating scene in Splash also.

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The Ice Rink - starring Bruce Campbell
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Well since we're listing every movie with ice skating scenes, Little Women (1994)
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Well since we're listing every movie with ice skating scenes
To Die For
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
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Originally Posted by Shannon Nutt
Here's a guy with WAY too much time on his hands:

http://www.eskatefans.com/movie/
Very comprehensive... but too comprehensive. Really, I don't think of Damien - Omen II or Jerry Maguire as ice skating movies.

I mean c'mon, would you call Tonya Hardings and Jeff Galooly's honeymoon video a skating movie because there's a skater in it?

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