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Details |
| Release Date
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February 6th,
2004 |
| Starring
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Kurt Russell,
Eddie Cahill, Patricia Clarkson, Noah Emmerich, Patrick O'Brien
Demsey |
| Type
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Drama
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| Direction
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Gavin O'Connor
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| Writer
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Not Available
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| Producer
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Debra Martin
Chase, Mark Ciardi, Gordon Gray |
| Distribution
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Walt Disney
Pictures |
| Duration
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Not Available
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| About the Movie |
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This is the true story of coach Herb Brooks
(Russell), who in 1980 had the distinction of having been the last player
cut from the U.S. hockey team the last time the team won the Gold at the
Olympics (in 1960). Brooks got his chance at being part of a medal-winning
team, however, when 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. For a country still entangled in a decades-long
"Cold War" with the U.S.S.R., the sports victory was seen as patriotic and
symbolic of "our side" beating "their side."
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