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Canada and the United States

Miracle. Produced by Mark Ciardi and Gordon Gray. Directed by Gavin O'Connor. Written by Eric Guggenheim. 2004; color; 135 minutes. Distributed by Walt Disney Pictures.
On February 22, 1980, a young American ice hockey team stunned the Winter Olympics and the world with an upset victory over the heavily favored Soviets en route to a gold medal. As the last seconds ticked off the clock, television announcer Al Michaels shrieked gleefully: "Do you believe in miracles? Yes!" The upset now looms large in American sporting culture. Thousands of web sites link to the phrase "Miracle on Ice": everything from e-stores selling autographed pucks, to "eyewitness" accounts (the number must now be at least five times the capacity of the Lake Placid Olympic Rink), to multiple eulogies for team coach Herb Brooks, who died in a car crash in August 2003.	1
With this feature film Disney joins a long line of those hoping to cash in on Miracle-mania. The New York Times sports staff set a publishing record with a compilation of stories, Miracle on Ice, that appeared on store shelves within weeks of the victory (March 1980). Sports Illustrated anointed the team's members as "Sportsmen of the Year." Journalist Tim Wendel followed with a solid insider's account, Going for the Gold. In 1981, Karl Malden starred in a made-for-tv movie, Miracle on Ice. In 1984, Boston Globe writer John Powers co-authored One Goal: A Chronicle of the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team with Arthur Kaminsky, a well-known agent who represented many of the players as they turned pro.	2
And then the memory faded somewhat until 2000, when ESPN rated the event the "greatest game of the century." A year later, HBO ran "Do You Believe in Miracles?" produced by Ross Greenburg, who also is an executive producer of the Disney feature. Even a casual glance at this 2001 documentary suggests that it was the basis for the latest dramatic version of the saga.	. . .

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