Following occipital lobe trauma from an ice-skating mishap, figure skater Lexi Winston suffers cortical visual impairment. You might think this sort of devastating injury would be career-ending, but Lexi and her plucky hockey-star boyfriend Nick set out to prove us wrong.
Normally I might include a bunch of "Spoiler Alert" tags on the plot summary, but this Ice Castles is actually a re-make of the Ice Castles from 1978. C'mon, you remember tearing up hearing that Academy Award winning song "Theme from Ice Castles (Through the Eyes of Love)", don't you? The 2010 movie serves up the modern, requisite syncopated re-make of the song, with hyper-stylized vocals.
Transient post-concussive visual disturbance is commonly encountered, but Lexi's type of prolonged/permanent vision loss from head trauma is not as common as you might think. After the accident, we see her imaging evaluation in an older model General Electric MRI scanner (I think). While standing in the radiology control room, the matter-of-fact physician counsels Lexi's father about the poor prognosis, advising him to take her home and prepare her for the difficult transition to a life of low vision.
These types of consultations are not normally done while standing in a control room, and in fact, the radiologists and technicians usually don't like it when non-radiologists hang out in there, let alone the family member of a patient. Also, the doctor's assessment of Lexi's vision as "light perception" is clearly inaccurate, since Lexi's point-of-view shots suggest her ability to discriminate some shapes and movement.
Ice Castles didn't get a theatrical release, instead going straight to DVD with its release timed for the winter Olympics. Despite some likable personalities and good skating cinematography, there is some seriously wobbly acting and an overall dingy look to the movie. This one gets a C - , but worth a look if you have a special interest in figure skating, traumatic brain injury, or if you are a 13 year old girl.
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