Michelle Trachtenberg is Casey Carlyle, a high school senior, a serious student, who is working to get a Harvard scholarship to study Physics. There is a pond at her rural home, and during the winter enjoys very casual skating around the frozen pond. Her teacher advises her to do a Physics project to bolster her chances, and he suggests "personalize it." So she gets the very bright idea to apply Physics to ice skaters in her town. This is a good, simple, clean movie about kids growing up and parents coping with the uncertainty of raising kids.
SPOILERS: Tina (Kim Cattrall) is the former competitive figure skater and high-strung coach of her daughter Gen (Hayden Panettiere) and several others getting ready for competition. Casey shows up with video camera, to begin doing some motion studies, but Tina accuses her of spying. So Casey uses a new approach -- she will take lessons from Tina, and use her own skating as her Physics project. Joan Cusack is good as Casey's mother who thinks skating is a great waste of time, and is glad her daughter is serious about something like Physics. But Casey has talent she didn't realize, and in competition places well enough to move on. Her mother must learn to accept her decision to postpone college and see how far she can go in skating with proper training. Trevor Blumas is Tina's son, Teddy, who drives the Zamboni and who takes a liking to Casey.
SPOILERS: Tina (Kim Cattrall) is the former competitive figure skater and high-strung coach of her daughter Gen (Hayden Panettiere) and several others getting ready for competition. Casey shows up with video camera, to begin doing some motion studies, but Tina accuses her of spying. So Casey uses a new approach -- she will take lessons from Tina, and use her own skating as her Physics project. Joan Cusack is good as Casey's mother who thinks skating is a great waste of time, and is glad her daughter is serious about something like Physics. But Casey has talent she didn't realize, and in competition places well enough to move on. Her mother must learn to accept her decision to postpone college and see how far she can go in skating with proper training. Trevor Blumas is Tina's son, Teddy, who drives the Zamboni and who takes a liking to Casey.