Countdown: 20 Ultimate Chick Flicks (No. 20)

20. The Cutting Edge
The Cutting Edge

This is the movie that made people believe that a rugged hockey player could go from being, well, a rugged hockey player to an Olympic grade figure skater in less than two years if he could just believe. Thanks to the perfect casting of Moira Kelly as an ice princess and D.B. Sweeney as her "bottom of the barrel" partner, everybody happened to fall in love with figure skating just in time for the Lillehammer '94 Winter Olympics. We may eventually forget about the whole Tonya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan debacle, but we'd be hard press to forget the moment where Doug Dorsey finally kisses Kate Moseley on the ice after a routine that by all accounts should have gotten them disqualified from the event. But after such a demonstration of true love, surely all rules went out the window.

Trivia

*The name of the girl who almost prevented Doug from getting to the name where he lost half his eyesight was Gita.

*Coach Anton showed no measure of humbleness after naming the life threatening final routine the "Pamchenko"

*Terry 'O Quinn (best known as John Locke from "Lost") played Kate Moseley's gold obsessed father. He is only 16 years older than Moira Kelly.


Soundtrack Song For The Mix Tape:

I've got dreams to remember - Otis Redding