Ice Fever (1978)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Ice fever |
| Original title | Ice Castles |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1978 |
| length | 109 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Donald Wrye |
| script |
Gary L. Bairn Donald Wrye |
| production | John Kemeny |
| music | Marvin Hamlisch |
| camera | Bill Butler |
| cut |
Michael Kahn Melvin Shapiro Maury Winetrobe |
| occupation | |
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Ice Fever is a 1978 American drama movie.
action
Alexis Winston is a small town Iowa girl who dreams of making a career in figure skating. Her school friend Nick, on the other hand, is an avid ice hockey player. At the regional championships, Alexis, who is called Lexie, is discovered by trainer Deborah Markland. She sees in the girl the potential of a future star. Despite her father's protests, Lexie moves to Colorado Springs to train at the famous Broadmoor World Arena. Her natural talent for ice skating attracts the attention of the audience, which makes her training mates with envy. But Lexie bites through and can make her dream come true. She becomes a coveted star in figure skating. She breaks off her long-distance relationship with Nick and begins to be interested in older men.
A serious accident occurs during training. Lexie is training to jump, but on landing she falls and hits her head on a metal rail. She suffers from a cerebral haemorrhage that makes her blind. Lexie feels sorry for herself at first. You and Nick get back together. The young man, her father, Marcus, and her former trainer, Beulah, persuade her to continue practicing her sport despite her blindness. Lexie continues to work on herself and manages that the audience doesn't even notice her blindness. Only when she stumbles over the roses thrown on the ice by the audience at an awards ceremony does her handicap become apparent.
Reviews
The lexicon of international films saw the film as an "incompatible mixture of sports film and melodrama."
Janet Maslin of the New York Times wrote that the story is not complicated, but the film is not properly followed. Director Wrye persuaded the actors to suppress all lines of dialogue that could advance the film.
Awards
The song Through the Eyes of Love by Marvin Hamlisch and Carole Bayer Sager , sung by Melissa Manchester , was nominated for an Oscar for best song in 1980 . The song received another Golden Globe nomination . Lynn-Holly Johnson was also nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Young Actress.
The composers of the film music, Marvin Hamlisch, Carole Bayer Sager as well as Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson , have been nominated for the Grammy .
The film received the Golden Reel Award from Morion Picture Sound Editors for dialogue editing .
background
The film premiered on December 31, 1978. In Germany, it first appeared in cinemas on May 4, 1979.
In 2009 David Wrye directed a remake of the film entitled Ice Fever 2, starring US figure skater Taylor Firth.
Web links
- Whiteout in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ice fever. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film Service , accessed February 25, 2011 .
- ↑ Critique of the New York Times (Eng.)