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''Miracle'' is a 2004 American
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directed by Gavin O'Connor and written by
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. It is about the U.S. men's ice hockey team, whose gold medal victory in the
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over the heavily favored seasoned Soviet team was dubbed the "
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".
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stars as head coach
Herb Brooks Herbert Paul Brooks (August 5, 1937 – August 11, 2003) was an American ice hockey player and coach (ice hockey), coach. His most notable achievement came in Ice hockey at the 1980 Winter Olympics, 1980 as head coach of the gold medal-winning Un ...
with
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and Noah Emmerich in supporting roles. ''Miracle'' was released on February 6, 2004, and grossed $64.5 million on a $28 million budget. It received positive reviews, with Russell's performance garnering the most praise from critics.


Plot

Herb Brooks Herbert Paul Brooks (August 5, 1937 – August 11, 2003) was an American ice hockey player and coach (ice hockey), coach. His most notable achievement came in Ice hockey at the 1980 Winter Olympics, 1980 as head coach of the gold medal-winning Un ...
, head
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coach at the
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, interviews with the
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(USOC) for the
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coach's job, discussing his philosophy on how to beat the dominant Soviet team who have won the gold medal in the previous four Olympics, calling for changes to the practice schedule and strategy. The USOC is skeptical, but gives Brooks the job. Brooks meets assistant coach Craig Patrick at the tryouts in
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. Brooks selects a preliminary roster of 26, indifferent to the preferences of senior USOC hockey officials. USOC executive director
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believes Brooks has their best interests at heart, and reluctantly agrees to take the heat from the committee. During the initial practice, tempers flare as forward Rob McClanahan and defenseman Jack O'Callahan get into a fight based on college rivalry. After the fight, Brooks tells all the players that they are to let go of old rivalries and start becoming a team. He has each player tell their name, hometown and which team they play for. As practices continue, Brooks uses unorthodox methods to reduce the roster to 20 players. The players themselves worry about being cut at any time, knowing that Brooks himself was the last player cut from the US squad that won the 1960 Olympic gold medal, so he will do anything to win. During an exhibition game against
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in
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that ends in a 3–3 tie, Brooks notices the players are not playing up to their potential. After the game, he orders them back on the ice for a bag skatea relentless skate from one end of the ice to the other, continuing the drill even after the rink manager cuts the power, until forward and team captain
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re-introduces himself, but this time says that he plays for the United States. Pleased, Brooks finally allows the team to go home. With their roster finalized, the Americans play the
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in an exhibition game at
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. The Soviets manhandle the young Americans, winning by a score of 10–3. During the game, O'Callahan suffers a knee injury that could keep him out of the entire Olympics and starting goaltender Jim Craig is told he may be benched in favor of backup Steve Janaszak. Brooks tells him that he hasn't been giving his very best, but decides to keep Craig as the starter for the Olympics. As the
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begin, the Americans trail
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2–1 in the first game. Brooks fires up the team during intermission by throwing a table and accuses McClanahan, who suffered a relatively minor leg injury, of quitting. McClanahan plays injured, which inspires the team. Bill Baker scores a goal with only 27 seconds remaining in the third period for a dramatic 2–2 tie. They next earn a 7–3 win over heavily favored
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. As the Olympics continue, the team defeats minor opponents
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,
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, and
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to earn a spot in the medal round. In the medal round, the Americans are overwhelming underdogs to the Soviets, who lost only a single Olympic game since 1964 and whose players are professionals, whereas the American players are
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s. The Soviets score the first goal before O'Callahan, having healed enough from his injury, enters the game for the first time. He heavily checks
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on a play that leads to a goal by Buzz Schneider. The Soviets score again to retake the lead. Soviet goalie
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stops a long shot by Dave Christian, but Mark Johnson gets the rebound and ties the game to end the period. During the first intermission, Soviet coach Viktor Tikhonov replaces Tretiak with backup Vladimir Myshkin. In the second period, the Soviets score a goal to go up 3–2. Early in the third period, the Soviet team is penalized for slashing, and Johnson scores a
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goal just as the penalty is about to expire. With 10 minutes left, Eruzione puts them ahead 4–3. The Americans hold off the Soviets to win the game, completing one of the biggest upsets in sports history. Two days later, the team would go on to defeat
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4–2 to win the gold medal.


Cast

U.S. Olympic Hockey Team Coaching Staff *
Kurt Russell Kurt Vogel Russell (born March 17, 1951) is an American actor. He began his career as a child actor before transitioning to leading roles as an adult in various genres such as action adventures, science-fiction, westerns, romance films, co ...
as
Herb Brooks Herbert Paul Brooks (August 5, 1937 – August 11, 2003) was an American ice hockey player and coach (ice hockey), coach. His most notable achievement came in Ice hockey at the 1980 Winter Olympics, 1980 as head coach of the gold medal-winning Un ...
, Head Coach * Noah Emmerich as Craig Patrick, Assistant General Manager and Assistant Coach * Sean McCann as
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, General Manager *
Kenneth Welsh Kenneth Clifford Welsh, (March 30, 1942 – May 5, 2022) was a Canadian actor, who made over 300 stage, film, and television appearances over a nearly 60-year career. Educated at the National Theatre School, he was a member of the Stratford S ...
as George "Doc" Nagobads, Team Physician U.S. Olympic Hockey Team Players *
Eddie Cahill Edmund Patrick Cahill (born January 15, 1978) is an American actor known for portraying "Miracle on Ice" goalie Jim Craig in the 2004 film ''Miracle'', and for playing the roles of Tag Jones in ''Friends'' and Detective Don Flack in '' CSI: NY. ...
as Jim Craig, Goaltender. Plays in every minute of every game. * Sam Skoryna as Steve Janaszak, Backup Goaltender. Never played in the Olympics. * Patrick O'Brien Demsey as
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, Forward and Captain. Scores the game-winning goal against the Soviets. * Eric Peter-Kaiser as Mark Johnson, Forward and team MVP. * Billy Schneider as Buzz Schneider, Forward and part of the Conehead line. * Nate Miller as John Harrington, Forward and part of the Conehead line. * Chris Koch as
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, Forward and part of the Conehead line. * Nathan West as Rob McClanahan, Forward * Bobby Hanson as Dave Silk, Forward * Kris Wilson as Phil Verchota, Forward * Scott Johnson as Steve Christoff, Forward * Trevor Alto as Neal Broten, Forward * Robbie MacGregor as Eric Strobel, Forward * Joe Hemsworth as Mark Wells, Forward * Stephen Kovalcik as Dave Christian, Forward and Defenseman * Joseph Cure as Mike Ramsey, Defenseman and youngest player. * Michael Mantenuto as Jack O'Callahan, Defenseman * Pete Duffy as Bob Suter, Defenseman * Nick Postle as Bill Baker, Defenseman * Casey Burnette as Ken Morrow, Defenseman * Kenneth Mitchell as Ralph Cox, Forward and last player cut from the team. * Adam Knight as Tim Harrer, Forward brought in for a late tryout and eventually cut. Miscellaneous *
Patricia Clarkson Patricia Davies Clarkson (born December 29, 1959) is an American actress. She has starred in numerous leading and supporting roles in a variety of films ranging from independent film features to major film studio productions. Her accolades incl ...
as Patti Brooks, Herb's wife * Zinaid Memišević as Viktor Tikhonov, Head Coach of the Soviet Olympic Hockey Team *
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as Himself, Sportscaster who provided play–by–play for the Olympic hockey tournament (voice over and archive footage only) *
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as Himself, Former NHL goaltender who provided color commentary for the Olympic hockey tournament (voice over and archive footage only)


Production

Gavin O'Connor directed, and Mark Ciardi produced the movie. Both are drawn to inspirational stories, and they decided to take on the "Greatest Sports Moment of the 20th Century". They chose to focus on the determination and focus of coach Herb Brooks. O'Connor knew from the beginning that he wanted to cast Kurt Russell as Herb Brooks because he needed someone with an athletic background and a fiery passion for sports. The casting of the team consisted of real hockey players to give the film a raw and accurate feel. O'Connor figured it would be easier to teach hockey players to act than to teach actors to play hockey. On-ice tryouts were held in New York, Boston, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Toronto, and Vancouver. Another tryout was held in Vancouver for the Soviet and European teams. There are a total of 133 different hockey plays in the film. To accomplish this, the directors turned to ReelSports Solutions, who had helped with the producers on a previous movie, '' The Rookie''. The ReelSports team referred to coach Herb Brooks for information on practices, plays, equipment, and uniform styles. Each fight and stunt scene was choreographed to ensure the actors' safety. Players went through a six-week training camp to relearn the game in older equipment. All the locations of the real life hockey games are replicated by hockey arenas in British Columbia. The team tryouts, set in Colorado Springs, were filmed at the Queen's Park Arena in
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. The team practices were filmed at the M.S.A. Arena in Abbotsford. The exhibition game in which the USA team lost to the USSR team at
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was filmed at the
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, former home of the
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. The Exhibition against Norway, the subsequent bag skate, and all Olympic game scenes were filmed at the
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.
Al Michaels Alan Richard Michaels (born November 12, 1944) is an American television play-by-play sportscaster for '' Thursday Night Football'' on Amazon Prime Video and in an emeritus role for NBC Sports. He has worked on network sports television sin ...
and
Ken Dryden Kenneth Wayne Dryden (born August 8, 1947) is a Canadians, Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender, politician, lawyer, businessman, and author. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada and a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame. He was ...
re-recorded most of their television commentary for the film. However, the last 30 seconds of the USA-Soviet game, including Michaels' "Do you believe in miracles?", used the original audio, as Michaels didn't feel he could re-create the call effectively. Coach Brooks died in a car accident half a year before the movie was released. At the end, before the credits, it states, "This film is dedicated to the memory of Herb Brooks, who died shortly following principal photography. He never saw it. He lived it."


Release

''Miracle'' was released with a rating of PG.


Home media

''Miracle'' was released on
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and
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on May 18, 2004. The DVD version of the film is
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certified, being a two-disc release.


Reception


Box office

''Miracle'' grossed $19,377,577 on its opening weekend on 2,605 screens, ranking second behind '' Barbershop 2: Back in Business''. It closed with a worldwide gross of $64,445,708.


Critical response

On
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, ''Miracle'' has an approval rating of 81% based on 166 reviews, with an average rating of 7/10. The site's critical consensus reads: "Kurt Russell's performance guides this cliche-ridden tale into the realm of inspirational, nostalgic goodness." On
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the film has a weighted average score of 68 out of 100, based on 36 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by
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gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale.
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'' stated that the movie "does a yeoman's job of recycling the day-old dough that passes for its story."
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of the ''
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'' referred to the movie as "a classically well-made studio entertainment that, like '' The Rookie'' of a few years back, has the knack of being moving without shamelessly overdoing a sure thing."Turan, Kenneth (February 6, 2004)
"Do you believe?"
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Bill Muller of ''
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'' gave it a 2.5 out of a 5 scoring, saying, "Even for a Disney sports movie, this is a treacly affair, complete with an ''
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''-style hero shot that just screams manipulation." Deborah Hornblow of ''
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'' earned a rating of 3 out of 5, stating that "the result is something like the ''
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." O'Callahan said in an interview that while the fight between him and McClanahan was fictional, the film accurately portrayed the "pretty intense" rivalry between Boston Terriers and Minnesota Gophers players, and was overall "pretty darn close" to actual events. As of May 2023, ''Miracle'' was rated the number six sports movie of all time with a rating of 9.06 out of 10 at ''Sports In Movies'', after maintaining the number one spot for several years.


Accolades

''Miracle'' won the Best Sports Movie ESPY Award for 2004."The 2004 ESPY Awards winners"
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recognition * AFI's 100 Years...100 Cheers - Nominated *
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- Nominated


See also

* List of films about ice hockey *
List of sports films This compilation of films covers all sports activities. Sports films have been made since the era of silent films, such as the 1915 film '' The Champion'' starring Charlie Chaplin. Films in this genre can range from serious (''Raging Bull'') to ...
* ''Miracle on Ice'' (1981 film)


References


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