Ice Princess facts for kids

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Directed by	Tim Fywell
Produced by	Bridget Johnson
Screenplay by	Hadley Davis
Story by	Meg Cabot, Hadley Davis
Starring	Joan Cusack Kim Cattrall Michelle Trachtenberg Hayden Panettiere
Music by	Christophe Beck
Cinematography	David Hennings
Editing by	Janice Hampton
Studio	Walt Disney Pictures Bridget Johnson Films On The Ice Productions
Distributed by	Buena Vista Pictures
Release date(s)	March 18, 2005 (2005-03-18)
Running time	97 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$25 million
Money made	$27.6 million

Ice Princess is a 2005 American teen sports comedy drama film directed by Tim Fywell, written by Hadley Davis from a story by Meg Cabot and 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. Ice Princess had an unsuccessful performance at the box office, grossing $24 million in the United States during its theatrical run against a production budget of $25 million.

Plot

Casey Carlyle (Michelle Trachtenberg), a very smart and talented science student, plans 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 mathematically inclined best friend Ann, Casey realizes that her favorite childhood hobby, ice skating, would make a perfect project. She decides to try to improve her own skating by applying physics and what she has discovered from watching other skaters.

She becomes proficient and skips two levels to become a junior skater, following a skating recital. She helps junior skaters Gennifer "Gen" Harwood (Hayden Panettiere), Tiffany Lai (Jocelyn Lai), and Nikki Fletcher (Kirsten Olson) improve their skating by using algorithms generated by her computer. Torn between her Harvard dream and her growing love of skating, Casey has difficulty juggling schoolwork, skating, and a part-time job. Joan Carlyle (Joan Cusack), Casey's mother, attempts to prevent her daughter from skating due to her declining academic performance. Meanwhile, tension arises between Casey's mother and Casey's coach Tina Harwood (Kim Cattrall), a disgraced former skater.

Tina, who manages the rink where Casey trains, has Gen on a strict training program. During a competition where both Casey and Gen compete, Tina sees that Casey may outrank Gen and sabotages Casey's performance by buying her new skates. Unaware of the danger of unbroken-in skates, Casey's resulting long program is riddled with poor jumps and several falls. Upon being informed of Tina's intent behind her seemingly kind gesture, Casey lashes out at Tina and mistakenly assumes her children were equally involved in the plot. Casey ranks fifth in the competition and can only qualify for sectionals if any of the top four back out. As a result of this, Casey loses interest in skating and returns to her studies and goal of attending Harvard.

Upset at sabotage and frustrated by all the restrictions of training, Gen quits. While Casey and Gen reconcile, Casey can now qualify for sectionals since Gen quit. Casey declines the Harvard scholarship competition to devote herself to skating, to her mother's dismay. Casey asks Tina to be her personal coach and help her train for sectionals. Her mother, upset at this change of direction in her life, refuses to watch her skate.

At Sectionals, Casey's mind is not fully focused on the competition, and she falls while attempting a triple salchow jump. To her surprise, she discovers that her mother is in the audience. Inspired, Casey gives a highly rated artistic performance. Sectionals ends with Nikki earning gold and Casey placing silver, both qualifying to go to Nationals and potentially the 2006 Winter Olympics. Gen's brother, Teddy (Trevor Blumas), gives Casey flowers to congratulate her; and they kiss. Later, Joan and Tina bicker about how many college courses Casey should take, Teddy and Casey's budding romance, Casey's sponsors, and Casey's future in figure skating.

Cast

• Michelle Trachtenberg as Casey Carlyle
• Joan Cusack as Joan Carlyle
• Kim Cattrall as Tina Harwood
• Hayden Panettiere as Gennifer "Gen" Harwood
• Trevor Blumas as Teddy Harwood
• Erik King as Dr. Chip Healey
• Diego Klattenhoff as Kyle Dayton
• Kirsten Olson as Nikki Fletcher
• Signe Ronka as Emma Flanders
• Juliana Cannarozzo as Zoey Bloch
• Paul Sun-Hyung Lee as Mr. Lai
• Martha MacIsaac as Mean Party Girl
• Connie Ray as Mrs. Fletcher
• Michelle Kwan as ESPN reporter
• Jocelyn Lai as Tiffany Lai
• Shanique Ollivierre-Lake as Chantal DeGroat
• Amy Stewart as Ann
• Kristina Whitcomb as Ms. Fisher Lee

Soundtrack

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Ice Princess: Original Soundtrack was released on March 15, 2005, in the United States by Walt Disney Records, features tracks by Natasha Bedingfield, Emma Roberts, Hayden Panettiere, Michelle Branch, Aly & AJ, Jesse McCartney, and Raven-Symoné, and various others. It peaked at number 53 on the Billboard 200 and at number 2 on Top Soundtracks.

Track listing

1. "Reach" - Caleigh Peters
2. "If I Had It My Way" - Emma Roberts
3. "Get Your Shine On" - Jesse McCartney
4. "You Set Me Free" - Michelle Branch
5. "Reachin' for Heaven" - Diana DeGarmo
6. "No One" - Aly & AJ
7. "It's Oh So Quiet" - Lucy Woodward
8. "Get Up" - Superchick
9. "I Fly" - Hayden Panettiere
10. "Just a Dream" - Jump5
11. "Bump" - Raven-Symoné
12. "There Is No Alternative" - Tina Sugandh
13. "Unwritten" - Natasha Bedingfield

Not included on the soundtrack.

• "Ray of Light" by Madonna appears in the background of Casey Carlyle's scene of the regional competition but is not included on the soundtrack.
• "Freak Out" by Avril Lavigne appears in the official trailer but is not included on the soundtrack.
• Instrumental versions of "Toxic" by Britney Spears and "Trouble" by Pink were included in the ice skating scenes from Zoey, but not included on the soundtrack.

See also

In Spanish: Ice Princess para niños