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ACTOR
Nina PearceAdam TuominenEmily MorrisAmy Handley
DIRECTOR
Clay Glen
SYNOPSICS
A Second Chance (2011) is a English movie. Clay Glen has directed this movie. Nina Pearce,Adam Tuominen,Emily Morris,Amy Handley are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2011. A Second Chance (2011) is considered one of the best Drama,Family,Sport movie in India and around the world.
A young girl and her coach overcome adversity to make their way into the National Australian Gymnastics Squad.
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A Second Chance (2011) Reviews
Awful message to children
This film only reinforces stereotypes of the macho society. Women are weak, men are strong. Women are dumb, men are smart. Women are emotional, men are rational. film. The world is not just about winning. The film also reinforces other stereotypes as the rich are bad and the poor always have to sacrifice to achieve success belong to the world. The performances are poor, the script is poor, edition is poor. It could have been a story about how to overcome the obstacles, limits, etc. But instead it only focuses on the difference between being man or woman. Besides all that, it is no dynamic, is not entertaining and due to the structure of the script it ends up being so predictable. I would not let my children watch this.
Hmmm...
**CONTAINS SPOILERS** This is a cute movie. My 6 year old daughter watches it from time to time on Netflix. Sometimes I catch myself being sucked into the movie, oddly enough. THE ACTING... The kids featured in the movie are probably gymnasts who happened to act in a movie...not actors who happen to know gymnastics. So, yes, the sub-par acting cannot be ignored but how cool for these gymnast kids to be in a movie. I hate to criticize children, so good for them that they got to make a movie (I can only dream of it!), but I am willing to bet their main gig is gymnastics. Let's hope. The actress that played Beverly seems to be a "real" actress and was heartfelt in her plea to Kate to help coach her 3 girls after she suffered a medical emergency. The actress that played Kate wasn't bad, but wasn't good either-I suspect she is or was a gymnast. The actor that played Shane did pretty good- he was the eye candy of the movie but he too is probably a gymnast with that crazy fit body. Kate and Shane had a good sexual tension going even though this movie is geared toward kids. The actress that played Sally good at making you dislike Sally, you really felt the resentment and hatred from her LOL THE STORY... The story line is good. Predictable, but over all good. There is discord between a coach and a judge (Kate and Sally) who were former friends and gymnast teammates until a young Sally suffered a debilitating injury that left her in a wheelchair for life. Sally blames Kate for pushing her off the balance beam, while Kate remembers it as playfulness gone wrong. How haunting for Kate to grow up with that guilt, while Sally's life changed forever and had to give up gymnastics (something she clearly loved if she grew up to be a gymnastics competition judge.) The resentment is clearly understandable from Sally, whose whole life was changed, yet you can't help but dislike her for being vengeful and petty as an adult and using Maddy, an innocent party, to get back at Kate by punishing Maddy with low scores. Maddy lives with her father who has to work a lot. Her mother died and they both miss her very much. Maddy is a talented gymnast with low confidence. Maddy has 2 very supportive friends at school, who are also on her gymnastics team. Chelsea is the school "it" girl who is on an opposing team and usually wins lots of medals. She's taken it upon herself to knock down Maddy whenever she can. Maddy befriends Joshua, a boy gymnast with whom she is training, and Chelsea, for a lack of something better to do, decides to cause a rift between Joshua and Maddy. Maddy has a crush on Joshua and he seems to like her back as well, but he IS a boy, so when a pretty girl with a hidden agenda, like Chelsea, bats her eyelashes at him, he takes the bait. Luckily, eventually he sees right through Chelsea and puts her in her place and gets her where it hurts: her parents. Chelsea's well-off parents are too busy with their social schedule to even come to her competitions and is always disappointed when she looks for them in the crowd, only to find her governess, or grandmother- not sure who that is- and 2 empty seats next to her. So you end up feeling sorry for Chelsea even though she deserves a good smack from Maddy. The main story line is Maddy's team is struggling in competition and Beverly persuades Kate to enlist the help of Shane, a boys' gymnastics coach, to train the girls in a way that will help them win competitions. Kate and Shane start off on the wrong foot but eventually work well together, as do the girls and boys. Most people wouldn't pay much attention to this aspect, but I immediately thought "Ok, so they are saying the only way girls can be good is if the boys help." In fact, my daughter asked "Why are the boys so good and the girls are not?" (referring to the montage of the girls struggling on the boys gym equipment). I told her that the girls are good, they just aren't used to doing those exercises. This bothered me, but, after reflecting on it, it doesn't really seem chauvinist. I think it's more about being creative and a bit unorthodox- in a good way. In real life, if I was a gymnast, I would have a competitive edge if I trained on both the men's and women's equipment because I would be strengthening and conditioning differently. The movie follows the girls as they train with Kate, Shane, and the boys. We see Maddy grow more confident but we also see Maddy give up and quit her team because of Chelsea's snidery. Kate comes to the rescue and shares a special moment with Maddy...and as one can expect, Maddy is back on the team, ready to win. Shane and Kate go on a date and Shane humorously does his impression of a girl on the balance beam... eventually in the movie they kiss a very passionless kiss- almost as if the actors did not want to- but then again...it's a kids movie so no need to make a big fuss of that. I didn't care for the very long opening credits...my daughter thought the whole movie was going to be like that. The music selection was cheesy. And good God, why did I spend so much time on this review?...
I cannot even explain how awful this movie is.
I had to sit through this as a nanny, the kids decided to watch it, and I had to supervise. It was awful acting, script, soundtrack. Nothing about it is authentic. Even the kids got bored. It had potential to be an interesting film to inspire kids to be involved in the sport, but instead there was awful scripting, and acting that blundered its way through 90 minutes of pure rubbish. There is nothing of substance and I could go on and on about it. BUT I wont...because then I will end up being just as boring as the film. I felt the tacky lines and on the side romance was not necessary and the kids were not keen on it. It drags on and on, until we get to the big competition where lo and behold the predictability metre goes off the charts.
Nice little Australian family film
If you are expecting a big blockbuster movie than this is not the movie for you. Instead what you will get is a nice little Australian movie. Don't expect much from it and you will be happily rewarded. Granted the story is a little run of the mill and predictable but then again most family movies are so why should this one be any different? The acting is not of the highest standard but it is acceptable enough to watch and accept their performances as a passing grade. As to the gymnastics side of the equation I am not really an expert but while again it wasn't of the highest standard it did seem passable enough for me and didn't really affect the movie in any way. I may be a touch biased as this is one of my daughters favourite films but I have watched it a few times with her now and each time I have found it as enjoyable as the last so I have no problem in recommending it to anyone who may be thinking about giving this film a try. If I have to have any real gripe about the movie is the fact that it had to many side stories going on that never really got much time to develop them fully. They tried to give all the characters backstories but never really gave us a chance to understand much about those stories. It is only a minor gripe which again doesn't really take away much from the movie so take it however you feel.
Suitable for children & family viewing, positive moral story line
I happened to catch this movie on a Christian TV channel recently. Although there is no overt religious messaging, the movie has a positive, moral story line and is 'clean' (no sex, violence), making it suitable for kids and for adults who are tired of skin, guts, and gore. Some reviewers may consider the movie 'milquetoast', but I considered it a pleasant respite from the worldly messaging too often promoted in TV, music, and movies today. I intend to purchase this as a Christmas gift for my granddaughter who is a gymnast.