Miracle (Widescreen Edition) |  | Director: Gavin O'Connor
Actors: Kurt Russell, Patricia Clarkson, Nathan West, Noah Emmerich, Sean McCann
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Category: DVD
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Sales Rank: 1366
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 2
Running Time: 135 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 03315200
UPC: 786936231939
EAN: 0786936231939
ASIN: B0001US66E
Theatrical Release Date: February 6, 2004
Release Date: May 18, 2004
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Product Description
MIRACLE, DVD- RATED PG
Amazon.com
The miracle about Miracle is that it gets so many details right in telling its 24-year-old story about the historic victory of the U.S. hockey team at the 1980 Olympic Games. It's typical for Hollywood to compromise such period details as hairstyles and fashion when catering to a contemporary audience, but Miracle looks and feels right in every detail, capturing the downbeat mood of post-Watergate America while showing how obsessively determined Minnesota hockey coach Herb Brooks (Kurt Russell) managed to assemble a once-in-a-lifetime team and whip them into a victorious frenzy over their Soviet champion opponents. With sharp support from Patricia Clarkson (as Brooks's wife) and Noah Emmerich (as his long-suffering assistant), Russell grounds the film with a well-balanced combination of aloofness, intimidation, and closely guarded strategy. No doubt the real Brooks (who died in a car accident shortly after filming completed) would have approved. Thanks to director Gavin O'Connor (Tumbleweeds) and the producers of the similarly laudable sports films Remember the Titans and The Rookie, Miracle brings plenty of heart--and historical accuracy--to an old, familiar formula. --Jeff Shannon
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 Great movie! November 11, 2009
Avid Shopper
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I love this movie. Usually inspirational sports films are not that great (We are Marshall), but Disney seems to do a very good job with them. I also recommend The Rookie. Very good movies!!
 Miracle Is based on true story October 29, 2009
Lewis W. Cunningham (Clovis,CA)
I like true stories and I known this DVD been out for some time But I never got a chance to watch it. Be great if all 3 of the TV companies had few channels that show nothing but good clean movies like this. This movie pitted a bunch of college age young men who played hockey against a Soviet Team who were a bunch of paid professionals and they beat them and made history in the process. If readers of this are looking for a good family movie get the pop corn ready and enjoy it on cold /rainy day
Miracle of Miracles September 1, 2009
GGB (Puerto Vallarta, Mexico)
I watched this movie with my 11 yr old grandson and we both got into the thrill of hockey, the "Miracle" team, the characters, etc. The second disc shows how the casting was done, the background of the filming and characters and really was an added bonus to the movie. It's a great story and was "told" beautifully. I think all of the real team members from the Olympics Miracle team can be proud, not only of what they accomplished, but that their story was told with real heart.
MIRACLE (BLU-RAY) August 6, 2009
Lawrence M. Cassidy (Costa Mesa, CA United States)
This is the tense, fast-paced story of what may be the greatest sports upset of all time for an underdog USA team. Hard to compare -- the decades-ago soccer upset of England (I believe) on a scraggy South American field (I believe) may be comparable. I watched this match in disbelief almost 30 years ago, and "Miracle" captures it -- Brooks, the players, the impossibility, the possibility, the moment. "Do you believe in miracles?" T'was one, indeed, and badly needed at that time.
Still waiting for a Miracle... August 2, 2009
Ruby Marlowe (NYC, NY)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
The Cold War, a 40-year pi$$ing contest between the world's capitalist and socialist superpowers came to an end in 1991 with more of a peep than a bang. And be thankful for that. We flushed money down the toilet building up a nuclear arms race to epic fail proportions. And then came the gas shortages, unemployment, the South American Contra affair, hostages in Iran, Soviets in Afghanistan, and everybody still reeling from Watergate and Vietnam, the world was just having a bad hair day (but compared to the last 3 years I'd say it was a walk in the park).
Then the Olympics rode into a little upstate New York town called Lake Placid, and something earth shattering happened. No, it wasn't Armageddon. It was a hockey game. And the good guys won! USA! USA! USA! And the NHL is barely a blip on the American pro sports radar compared to the NFL, NBA, MLB- hell even the PGA gets better airtime! But that's not the point, 20 collegiate nobodies managed to convince an entire country that we can do anything... provided that we had a coach to play mind games and beat our a$$es into the ground 95% of the time.
Herb Brooks was a unique individual. This grandfatherly man who knew the Latin scientific names of shrubbery was a terror on the college hockey circuit. He was also its best coach. Reading like a Greek tragedy, this Minnesotan tempest in a whirlpool bath was the last man cut from the gold medal winning 1960 Olympic hockey team. In short Herbie had a sick bone to pick with USA Hockey. Meanwhile behind the Iron Curtain, the USSR having picked itself up from the ruins of WW II, the mighty Red Sports Machine produced hockey teams that would sweep every Olympic gold medal and nearly every world title from 1964 on. Herb Brooks got his most ardent wish and got a shift for USA Hockey profiling all the "right" players over the "good" ones to challenge the Soviets.
Now I was a bit leery when I saw the Disney logo plastered all over the trailer. The last thing we needed was some Mickey-Mouse-tooth-rotting-happy-go-lucky-afterschool-special-behind-the-scenes-REHASH of 1980 USA hockey. I also wasn't confident of Kurt Russell's (he's from Massachusetts- OH THE IRONY!) ability to portray Brooks, especially since he died after the completion of principal photography. Then I saw two interesting things: 1) PG-13 rating- OOH! Adult Disney! 2) A TRUCKLOAD of hotties! Disney got the 16-25 female range in their crease (because if you saw the original team pic, the real guys weren't so... photogenic). But it was kismet for angry pucknuts since the NHL 2004-'05 lockout left a bad taste in their mouths, so they got themselves a gold medal cookie to nibble on for Miracle's 2/6/04 premier. And it was a success.
I can't give this flick 5 stars because I felt (along with other angry fangirls- NOT PUCKBUNNIES!) that Miracle contained false advertising. All those wonderful scenes with the team you see in the trailer and extras were left to rot on the cutting room floor. I know the story is ESSENTIALLY about Herb Brooks, but it took 20 special guys to make this miracle happen. With the exception of Eddie Cahill (who is a dead-ringer for a twenty-something Jimmy Craig who was a good looking man... from the right angles) all those guys were hockey players (and Billy Schneider IS Buzzy's son). So Disney if you're going to double dip with this Blu-Ray crapola, you'd better get together with Gavin O'Connor for surgery and splice those scenes back in! I'd like to know a little more about Rizzo, Mac, Jimmy, O.C., Bah, Buzzy, Silky, Rammer, Jannie, Coxie, and Magic, because their stories are worth the $22 you want to steal from me. Besides, the fanfics are lacking.
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