Michelle Trachtenberg plays Casey Carlyle, a brainy bookworm and physicsgeek. Casey decides to use her academic skill by pursuing a scholarship offered to the top students in the state. For the scholarship, Casey must do a 'personal' project about physics. While watching a figure skating competition featuring Sasha Cohen, Casey realizes that her hobby, skating, would make a perfect project for getting her scholarship. Initially, she watches other skaters at the local rink, but decides to try to improve her own skating by applying the physics and what she found out from analysing other skaters. She becomes exceptionally good at skating, even skipping two levels to get a Junior Pass.
Unsure of what she really wants, Casey has a difficult time juggling schoolwork, skating, and a job to pay for her skating lessons. Her mom, played by Joan Cusack, realizes that her daughter's constant skating is affecting her schoolwork and tells her to stop skating. Casey refuses and goes to regionals with help from her friend, Genn, and her coach. In the end, Casey turns down the scholarship to Harvard to keep skating, and attains a silver medal in the Sectionals. Casey and her mom reconcile after two months, and Casey finally gains her mother's support.
Michelle's bodyguard, Sean Croft, played a small role as one of Joan's student. The student who corrected Joan's lecture from "Janet Jackson" to "Shirley Jackson".
Hayden Panettiere also sang "I Fly", one of the movie's original soundtrack.
Factual Errors
In the final standings posting of the Regional Championship, Worcester, MA is misspelled twice -- in the 1st place with Zoey Bloch, and the 6th place with Avril Dishaw -- it is spelled as "Wooster", MA. There is no Wooster, MA. It is in Ohio.
The kids and Casey are automatically in Juvenile, which skips Pre-Preliminary, Preliminary, and Pre-Juvenile.
Music that a skater skates to in the long program and short program must be instrumental, without a person singing.
ESPN does not cover junior sectionals. (Or any junior events.)
In a real test to pass to the next level, the lights are on and there are no spotlights. There is a maximum of two people on the ice at a time, and there is nothing on the ice and no music. You cannot skip two levels, and there are two tests to pass for one level
The things the kids were learning were Freestyle 2 and Freestyle 6 moves, not Snowplow Sam.
While narrating her project video, Casey says "Now, I’m going to increase the centripetal force by tucking in my arms. This will increase my moment of inertia, so I will spin faster." Regarding moment of inertia, this is exactly backward. Bringing in the arms will reduce her moment of inertia. (It is true that she will spin faster, to conserve angular momentum.)
At the party, Casey states that "velocity times momentum equals acceleration". This is untrue; velocity multiplied by momentum yields only mv2, which is just kinetic energy multiplied by two. This isn't an expression for acceleration, and is not fundamentally meaningful.
In one scene, Teddy chases Casey off the ice rink, because she is wearing street shoes. Wearing street shoes on an ice rink does no harm to it.
Harvard does not offer merit scholarships to applicants.
Nonfactual error: There are many times during the mid-end of the movie where you can see a microphone hanging from the edge of the screen. (In those scenes, the microphone is covered by a black, furry microphone cover.) There is also one scene where the pole of the microphone is easily seen.
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