Ice Princess (2005) **

Seen on 10-1-2010 - HB0

Yet another film about a youth's struggle to fulfill an impossible dream--this time about figure skating--against insurmoutable hurdles. But here the girl who played the lead role looks divine and graceful and the game of ice-skating itself looked interesting.

"A high-school bookworm transforms into a swan. Brainy Casey Carlyle has never quite fit in. Caught between her fantasy of becoming a championship figure skater and her strong-willed mother, who has her on the fast track to Harvard, she can only hope to be like Nikki, Tiffany and Gen--three elite skating prodigies who are ruthlessly competing on the US National circuit (and have attitudes to match). But when Casey gets the chance to train with Gen and her coach, a disgraced former skating champion who also happens to be Gen's mother, she must dash her own mother's hopes in order to pursue her dream. Now, with only the support of Gen's teenage brother, a hunky Zamboni driver, Casey takes on the challenge of her life when she finds herself competing against the best to make it into the championship circuit and become a real "ice princess." --IMDB summary