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One of the movie’s most profound aspects is just how clean everyone is, including their surroundings. In “The Miracle Season,” we hear Kelly’s (Erin Moriarty) description of a wonderful friend who inspires her to fly. They were both very young and now teenagers. Kelly is with her friend Caroline (Danika Yarosh), where they are frolicking in a barn so clean it has no visible dirt. Next, we see Kelly and ‘Line’ (Caroline’s nickname) in a clean sky blue convertible; the girls are in pristine jerseys and shorts. They park next to a bakery and the autumn leaves on the pavement appear as though they were washed and carefully placed. Stars Hollow resembles a neighborhood from a grungy episode of “Law and Order: SVU.” The West High School where the girls play volleyball in is much dirtier than the high school in “Love, Simon,” while the latter looks like something from “The Blackboard Jungle” compared to it.
Line is full of life, and her high spirits are never threatening. Along with that, she tends to stir the pot among her friends in a light hearted manner in an attempt to make them do things that they would not usually do. While encouraging Kelly to ask a new dashing man who lives nearby, to the season starting get together at the barn that Line’s father owns, or while provocation her teammates to see who can eat the most pieces of pizza, she does a lot of things. Her brute coach in volley ball, Kathy Breshnan (who is played by Helen Hunt) does not approve of this at all. This only adds fuel to the fire for Kathy who, alongside her team, won the state championship in 2010. The girls fondly call her “Bres.” To make matters worse, she always expects issues like this to arrive when it’s the state champion’s year.
Now, the reason for setting the movie in 2010 is that this portion is based on real life events. Unfortunately Caroline dies from an automobile incident right as the season starts, and that is the tragedy the documentary unfolds. It absolutely would have made sense if, as directed by Sean McNamara, the accident was just glossed over, considering the pleasant atmosphere. But the emotion still resonates, as the rest of the cast, especially her father, played by William Hurt, and the surgeon knows what is about to happen and the pain caused by seeing a what happened to their teammates, along with the her.
To a particular degree. Just from the title, you can tell this film is marketing motivation instead of suspense. Initially, the defeated squad is unable to overcome the despair from the loss, but with the example Kelly sets, it slowly begins to pick itself up. Everyone is spurred on by the determination to win “for Line” until the coach comes up with what seems like an impossible challenge: to get the team to the quarter finals by winning fourteen consecutive matches in a row.
I imagine it is not easy to fabricate a volleyball match, and I need not go that far to observe that there are very few thrilling films involving the sport. This film plays more with the emotions and tears than with the sport and its followers. The conclusion, however, leaves much to be desired. William Hurt, may God bless him. The script gives him every excuse to step away from his role of Caroline’s father by forcing him to say lines that include, “I may be the surgeon, but you’re the hero out there.” He captures everything superbly. Just as Hunt does, whose character’s emotionally repressed persona is stunningly shattered in a scene towards the end.
The problem here is that every time the film gets close to any real feeling, it hardly takes a moment to breathe before racing to the next Katy Perry song cue. (I mean, both ‘Roar’ and ‘Firework’ are in the mix here.) Given the effort that the adult and adolescent actors put in to replicate their real life counterparts, this seems somewhat lazy. Fans of Katy Perry’s songs may have a different perspective.
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