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The film was inspired by events in the lives of the Shue family. Elisabeth Shue played a role inspired by her mother, Andrew Shue produced the film and had a small role, younger brother John Shue helped raised the finances, and it was directed by Davis Guggenheim, Elisabeth's husband. Although the film was motivated by the family's history, Elisabeth Shue, the inspiration for the film's title character, actually quit soccer as a teenager: “The movie is really what would have happened if I hadn’t quit. I quit because of what people would think of me. The pressure from the boys. The awkward development of my body. I really, really regret it. I wish I’d been brave enough.” Production notes and photos © 2007 Picturehouse HOLLYWOODJESUS.COM
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CARLY SCHROEDER (Grace Bowen) Recently, Schroeder completed work in the independent film Prey, directed by Darrell Roodt and shot in South Africa. She has also finished a starring role in the independent feature Eye of the Dolphin, written and directed by Michael Sellers. Schroeder was most recently seen in Richard Loncraine’s, Firewall for Warner Brothers Studios playing the daughter of Harrison Ford and Virginia Madsen’s character; she is taken hostage in order for the kidnappers to blackmail Ford. Production notes and photos © 2007 Picturehouse HOLLYWOODJESUS.COM
ELISABETH SHUE (Lindsay Bowen) Elisabeth Shue was honored with an Academy Award® nomination for her performance in Mike Figgis’s Leaving Las Vegas, Shue most recently starred in Dreamer opposite Kurt Russell and Dakota Fanning. Her list of film credits includes Hide and Seek Mysterious Skin, Hollow Man, Molly, Cousin Bette, Palmetto, Deconstructing Harry, The Saint, The Trigger, Heart and Souls, Back to the Future, Parts II & III, Cocktail, Adventures in Babysitting, The Karate Kid. ELISABETH SHUE (Lindsay Bowen) Elisabeth Shue was honored with an Academy Award® nomination for her performance in Mike Figgis’s Leaving Las Vegas, Shue most recently starred in Dreamer opposite Kurt Russell and Dakota Fanning. Her list of film credits includes Hide and Seek Mysterious Skin, Hollow Man, Molly, Cousin Bette, Palmetto, Deconstructing Harry, The Saint, The Trigger, Heart and Souls, Back to the Future, Parts II & III, Cocktail, Adventures in Babysitting, The Karate Kid. Production notes and photos © 2007 Picturehouse HOLLYWOODJESUS.COM
DAVIS GUGGENHEIM (Director) LEMORE SYVAN (Producer) ANDREW SHUE (Producer) DAN METCALFE (Soccer Choreographer) Production notes and photos © 2007 Picturehouse HOLLYWOODJESUS.COM
DAVIS GUGGENHEIM (Director) He was the director and executive producer of the film documentary An Inconvenient Truth with former Vice President, Al Gore. He was producer and director of the HBO series Deadwood. His television directing credits include the pilot of The Unit as well as episodes of Numbers, The Shield, Alias, 24, NYPD Blue, ER, and Party of Five. He was an Executive Producer of Training Day and director of the film Gossip. Production notes and photos © 2007 Picturehouse HOLLYWOODJESUS.COM
Living in South Orange, New Jersey, 15 year old Gracie Bowen (Carly Schroeder) is the only girl in a family of three brothers. Their family life revolves almost entirely around soccer: her father (Dermot Mulroney) and brothers are obsessed with the sport, practicing in the backyard's makeshift field every day from morning until night. Production notes and photos © 2007 Picturehouse HOLLYWOODJESUS.COM
Tragedy unexpectedly strikes when Gracie's older brother Johnny (Jesse Lee Soffer), star of the high school varsity soccer team (and a character based on the Shue's older brother William, who was captain of the Columbia High School soccer team that won the New Jersey state championship in 1978), is killed in a car accident. Production notes and photos © 2007 Picturehouse HOLLYWOODJESUS.COM
Struggling with grief over her family's loss, Gracie decides to fill the void left on her brother's team by petitioning the school board to allow her to play on the boy's high school varsity soccer team in his place. Her father, a former soccer star himself, tries to prove to Gracie that she is not tough enough or talented enough to play with boys. Production notes and photos © 2007 Picturehouse HOLLYWOODJESUS.COM
Her mother, Lindsey Bowen (Elisabeth Shue) already an outsider in the sports-obsessed family, is no help either. Undeterred, Gracie finds reserves of strength she never knew existed, and persists in changing everyone's beliefs in what she is capable of, including her own. Production notes and photos © 2007 Picturehouse HOLLYWOODJESUS.COM
Gracie not only forces her father to wake up from his grief and see her as the beautiful and strong person that she has always been but she also brings her family together in the face of their tragedy. Production notes and photos © 2007 Picturehouse HOLLYWOODJESUS.COM
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Production notes and photos © 2007 Picturehouse HOLLYWOODJESUS.COM
Production notes and photos © 2007 Picturehouse HOLLYWOODJESUS.COM