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AboutIce Princess is a 2005 American figure-skating film directed by Tim Fywell, written by Meg Cabot and Hadley Davis, and starring Michelle Trachtenberg, Joan Cusack, Kim Cattrall and Hayden Panettiere. The film focuses on Casey Carlyle, a normal teenager who gives up a promising future academic life in order to pursue her new-found dream of being a professional figure skater. The film was released on March 18, 2005 and had a successful performance at the box office, grossing $24 million in the United States during its theatrical run.
Plot
Seventeen-year-old Casey Carlyle, a very smart and talented bookworm and physics geek plans to use her newly advanced academic skills to pursue a scholarship to Harvard University. For the scholarship, Casey must present a personal summer project about physics. While watching a figure skating competition with her math geek friend Ann, Casey realizes that her favorite childhood hobby, which is ice skating on the pond outside her house, would make a perfect project for getting her scholarship. At first, she watches other skaters at the local ice rink, but decides to try to improve her own skating by applying the physics and what she has discovered from watching other skaters.
She becomes a proficient skater, even skipping two levels to become a junior skater. She also helps junior skaters Jennifer Harwood, Tiffany Lai and Nikki Fletcher improve in their skating. Unsure of what she really wants, Casey has a difficult time juggling schoolwork, skating, and a job at a food stand in the ice rink to pay for her skating lessons. Her mother, Joan, realizes that Casey's constant skating is affecting her schoolwork and tells her to stop, but Casey refuses. Meanwhile, there is increasing tension between Casey's coach Tina Harwood, a disgraced former skater, and her seventeen-year old daughter Jennifer.
Tina, who manages the ice skating rink where Casey is training for competition, is putting her daughter into a strict training program and an even stricter diet. Angered by the situation, Jennifer quits skating after her mother attempts to sabotage Casey by buying Casey new skates, causing Casey to injure her feet during a skating competition. At Casey's behest, Tina becomes Casey's personal coach and helps her train for Sectionals after Casey turns down the Harvard scholarship to keep skating, with help from Jen and her brother Teddy. At Sectionals, Casey performs well.
In a triple salchow, she slips and falls, but then the sight of her mother in the spectator stands boosts her confidence, and she gives a highly rated artistic performance. By the end of Sectionals, Casey has come in second place behind Nikki, and is going to the nationals. Casey and Joan reconcile after two months, and she finally gains her mother's support. Teddy gives Casey flowers to congratulate her, and the two share a passionate kiss. The film ends with Joan and Tina playfully arguing about how many college courses Casey should take, discussing Teddy's and Casey's budding romantic relationship, Casey's sponsors, and about Casey's future in figure skating.
Technical
German Title - Die Eisprinzessin
Italian Title - Ice Princess - Un sogno sul ghiaccio
Polish Title - Księżniczka na lodzie
Swedish Title - Isprinsessan
Film Director - Tim Fywell
Written By - Meg Cabot, Hadley Davis
Executive Producer - Bridget Johnson
Music By - Christophe Beck
Edited By - Janice Hampton
Release Date - March 18, 2005 (United States)
Running Time - 1 hour 38 minutes
Country - United States
Main cast
Michelle Trachtenberg as Casey Carlyle
Joan Cusack as Joan Carlyle
Kim Cattrall as Tina Harwood
Trevor Blumas as Teddy Harwood
Kirsten Olson as Nikki Fletcher
Hayden Panettiere as Jennifer Harwood
Amy Stewart as Ann
Plot
Seventeen-year-old Casey Carlyle, a very smart and talented bookworm and physics geek plans to use her newly advanced academic skills to pursue a scholarship to Harvard University. For the scholarship, Casey must present a personal summer project about physics. While watching a figure skating competition with her math geek friend Ann, Casey realizes that her favorite childhood hobby, which is ice skating on the pond outside her house, would make a perfect project for getting her scholarship. At first, she watches other skaters at the local ice rink, but decides to try to improve her own skating by applying the physics and what she has discovered from watching other skaters.
She becomes a proficient skater, even skipping two levels to become a junior skater. She also helps junior skaters Jennifer Harwood, Tiffany Lai and Nikki Fletcher improve in their skating. Unsure of what she really wants, Casey has a difficult time juggling schoolwork, skating, and a job at a food stand in the ice rink to pay for her skating lessons. Her mother, Joan, realizes that Casey's constant skating is affecting her schoolwork and tells her to stop, but Casey refuses. Meanwhile, there is increasing tension between Casey's coach Tina Harwood, a disgraced former skater, and her seventeen-year old daughter Jennifer.
Tina, who manages the ice skating rink where Casey is training for competition, is putting her daughter into a strict training program and an even stricter diet. Angered by the situation, Jennifer quits skating after her mother attempts to sabotage Casey by buying Casey new skates, causing Casey to injure her feet during a skating competition. At Casey's behest, Tina becomes Casey's personal coach and helps her train for Sectionals after Casey turns down the Harvard scholarship to keep skating, with help from Jen and her brother Teddy. At Sectionals, Casey performs well.
In a triple salchow, she slips and falls, but then the sight of her mother in the spectator stands boosts her confidence, and she gives a highly rated artistic performance. By the end of Sectionals, Casey has come in second place behind Nikki, and is going to the nationals. Casey and Joan reconcile after two months, and she finally gains her mother's support. Teddy gives Casey flowers to congratulate her, and the two share a passionate kiss. The film ends with Joan and Tina playfully arguing about how many college courses Casey should take, discussing Teddy's and Casey's budding romantic relationship, Casey's sponsors, and about Casey's future in figure skating.
Technical
German Title - Die Eisprinzessin
Italian Title - Ice Princess - Un sogno sul ghiaccio
Polish Title - Księżniczka na lodzie
Swedish Title - Isprinsessan
Film Director - Tim Fywell
Written By - Meg Cabot, Hadley Davis
Executive Producer - Bridget Johnson
Music By - Christophe Beck
Edited By - Janice Hampton
Release Date - March 18, 2005 (United States)
Running Time - 1 hour 38 minutes
Country - United States
Main cast
Michelle Trachtenberg as Casey Carlyle
Joan Cusack as Joan Carlyle
Kim Cattrall as Tina Harwood
Trevor Blumas as Teddy Harwood
Kirsten Olson as Nikki Fletcher
Hayden Panettiere as Jennifer Harwood
Amy Stewart as Ann
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