The Cutting Edge (1992) on Netflix
Kate Moseley, a pairs figure skater, falls at the Calgary Olympics. Her coach recruits Doug Dorsey, a hockey player whose damaged vision ended his NHL hopes, to be her partner.
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Plot summary
At the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Kate Moseley skates pairs for the United States. She has genuine talent, but her wealthy widower father Jack has indulged her for years, and she is impossible to work with. Doug Dorsey, captain of the American hockey team at the same Games, has NHL offers waiting. A hit during a game injures his head and damages his peripheral vision so that doctors rule him out. Two years later, Kate has driven away every partner, and her new coach, Anton Pamchenko, wants an outsider who does not know how difficult she is. He tracks down Doug, who is in Minnesota, living with his brother, holding a steel mill job and playing in a bar hockey league. Doug scorns figure skating, yet he agrees to try out as her partner.
Cast
- Kevin Peeksas Brian Newman
- Rachelle Ottleyas Lorie Peckarovski
- Steve Searsas Spindler
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Cutting Edge (1992)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The Canadian figure skaters Christine Hough and Doug Ladret played the fictional rival Soviet pair on screen, having actually finished ninth at the real 1988 Winter Olympics depicted in the film just six weeks before its release.
- The first sequel, centered on the original couple's daughter, retroactively moved the setting of The Cutting Edge from the 1992 Olympics back to 1984 so that the daughter could plausibly be 21 years old by the time of the follow-up film.
- The film's theme song, "Feels Like Forever," was written by Diane Warren and Bryan Adams and performed by Joe Cocker.
- The Cutting Edge is referenced several times in the American version of the sitcom Ghosts, where it is one of the favorite films of the character Trevor Lefkowitz.
