Stick It
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| Directed by | Jessica Bendinger |
| Produced by | Gary Barber |
| Written by | Jessica Bendinger |
| Starring | Jeff Bridges Missy Peregrym Vanessa Lengies Kellan Lutz Maddy Curley Nikki SooHoo |
| Music by | Mike Simpson |
| Cinematography | Daryn Okada |
| Editing by | Troy Takaki |
| Distributed by | Touchstone Pictures Spyglass Entertainment |
| Release date(s) | April 28, 2006 |
| Running time | 105 min. |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $20 Million |
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Stick It is a teen comedy film starring Jeff Bridges, Missy Peregrym, and Vanessa Lengies. It was written and directed by Jessica Bendinger, the film marks her directorial debut. It was produced by Disney's Touchstone Pictures and was released in theatres on April 28, 2006.
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[edit] Plot
After another run-in with the law, rebellious 17-year-old Haley Graham (Peregrym), a retired gymnast, is given a choice between enrolling in Burt Vickerman's (Bridges) strict and demanding program for gymnastics (VGA) or a military institute. Haley's choice is to take the latter, but the judge decides to force her to enroll in the program against her wishes.
Haley was once considered one of the most talented gymnasts in the United States. She made it to the World Championships, but she walked out of competition in the middle of the finals, costing the American team the gold medal.
Disliking the sport's rigid rules and intense training schedule, Haley is reluctant to come out of retirement. Her attitude toward her fellow gymnasts—as well as her past—causes conflicts. After getting the cold shoulder the first day at the gym.
Haley has a talk with Coach Vickerman, who convinces her to take up the sport once again—at least until she can enter an upcoming invitational competition. Vickerman convinces her that she can use the prize money from the competition to repay some property damage debts she still owes and leave gymnastics once and for all.
Haley begins to train at VGA, but she finds that difficult tricks mean nothing without control and execution. She reluctantly asks for Burt's help and begins to show passion for gymnastics once more.
At the invitational, Haley's talent shines and her return from gymnastics retirement seems for the better. But all is not what it seems in the scoring system. She starts to remember one of the many reasons she retired: the flaws in judging. The panels do not look at the difficulty of the move nor do they look at the technique; they merely take deductions for unimportant minor errors.
In addition, Haley is severely stressed by her dominating mother, who has arrived to watch the meet. Her conduct at the World Championship ("Worlds") has not been forgotten by the other athletes, and they treat her with open hostility. Haley finally breaks down in the middle of her balance beam routine and, in a repeat of the World Championships, leaves the arena before completing the competition. Before she leaves, she reveals to Vickerman one of the reasons she walked out of Worlds: she discovered that her mother was having an affair with her old coach.
Although she did not complete the invitational, Haley continues to train and, with three of her teammates Mina (Maddy Curley) , Wei Wei (Nikki SooHoo) and Joanne (Vanessa Lengies), qualifies for the National Championships. The biased judging leaves her far back in the all-around standings, but this does not keep her out of the event finals.
In the first event final, vault, Mina executes an extremely difficult maneuver perfectly but receives a low score (9.500 out of 10). When Vickerman questions the judges, he learns that Mina was deducted on the technicality of showing a bra strap. Haley is next up, however, instead of vaulting, she shows her bra strap to the judges and forfeits her turn in disgust. The other gymnasts follow suit, earning a string of zeroes and forcing the judges to award Mina the vault gold medal anyway.
Haley's bold action sparks a movement. The gymnasts talk amongst themselves and realize that if they could choose the winner, the judging would be fair. They convince all the others in the competition to do the same, choosing one person from each event who they deem the best to be the "winner". The winner competes her routine; the others jump on and off the apparatus and earn scores of zero.
What started out as a gymnastics competition turns into a small revolution for the rules and Haley. Her talents are recognized once more and her future seems to be set with numerous colleges offering her athletic scholarships to compete in NCAA gymnastics.
[edit] Trivia
- The title, "Stick It," is a term used frequently in gymnastics. To "stick" a skill, one lands on one's feet cleanly and firmly, without any wobbles, steps or falls.
- Peregrym and Lengies both trained as gymnasts before shooting. They also both hail from Montreal.
- The scene where Poot tries to get all the girls to "have a fun day" he calls Frank his "heterolifemate" this is a reference done by Jay in the Jay and SilentBob movies.
- Featured the Jeannie Ortega song Crowded (with rapper Papoose).
[edit] Real gymnasts on set
- Maddy Curley - Mina Hoyt
- Lenika de Simone - IG Classic/National Gymnastics Championships Gymnast
- Annabeth Eberle - Vickerman Elite Gymnast
- Annie Gagnon - Vanessa Lengies's gymnastics double; Vickerman Elite Gymnast
- Nastia Liukin - Herself
- Valeri Liukin - Himself (Nastia Liukin's spotter in her uneven bars routine)
- Jessica Miyagi - Brooke; Missy Peregrym's gymnastics double (beam routine - IG Classic)
- Kari Muth - Devon
- Tarah Paige - Tricia Skilken
- Carly Patterson - Fan
- Calli Ryals - Gloria Javier
- Alicia Saari - Lacey
- Isabelle Severino - Girl at Banquet; Missy Peregrym's gymnastics double (main)
- Kate Stopper - Mina gymnastics double; Vickerman Elite Gymnast
- Tacia Van Vleet - Nikki SooHoo's gymnastics double; Vickerman Elite Gymnast
- Allana Slater - IG Classic/National Gymnastics Championships Gymnast
- Mohini Bhardwaj - IG Classic/National Gymnastics Championships Gymnast
- Aleea Newton - IG Classic/National Gymnastics Championships Gymnast
- Stephanie Moorhouse - IG Classic/National Gymnastics Championships Gymnast
- Nadia Fairfax - IG Classic/National Gymnastics Championships Gymnast
- Belinda Archer - IG Classic/National Gymnastics Championships Gymnast
- Yang Yun - IG Classic/National Gymnastics Championships Gymnast
- Melissa Munro - IG Classic/National Gymnastics Championships Gymnast
- Tania Gener - IG Classic/National Gymnastics Championships Gymnast
- Emilie Schutt - IG Classic/National Gymnastics Championships Gymnast
- Melany Hars - IG Classic/National Gymnastics Championships Gymnast
- Jessica Hoffman - IG Classic/National Gymnastics Championships Gymnast
- Nicole Doherty - IG Classic/National Gymnastics Championships Gymnast
- Jennifer Greene - IG Classic/National Gymnastics Championships Gymnast
- Jaime Mabray - IG Classic/National Gymnastics Championships Gymnast
- Jamie Saas - IG Classic/National Gymnastics Championships Gymnast
- Meloney Greer - IG Classic/National Gymnastics Championships Gymnast
- Stefanie Aeder - IG Classic/National Gymnastics Championships Gymnast
- Tiffany Chan - IG Classic/National Gymnastics Championships Gymnast
- Andree Pickens - IG Classic/National Gymnastics Championships Gymnast
- Erin Labarr - IG Classic/National Gymnastics ChampionshipsGymnast
- Bart Connor - Himself
- Elfi Schlegel - Herself
[edit] Movie Quotes
- Joanne's Mom:"Josie, let's go."
Joanne:"I think I'm going to prom first." - Judge:"Her bra strap was showing."
Burt:"That rule is ancient!"
Judge:"And apparently so is her bra." - Burt:"Are you going to hurt yourself?"
Haley:"Probably."
Burt:"Just don't get blood on the equipment."
Haley:"Too late!" - (Haley hands Joanne the phone)
Joanne:"I wanted a pink corsage! But I guess white will do." - Haley:"Mina, tell Joanne I'm going to do a real dismount."
Mina:"Haley says she's going to do a real dismount."
Joanne:"Put down the phone!" - Joanne:"Call me."
Poot (Haley's friend):"Stalk you." - Joanne:It's not called gym-nice-tics.
- Joanne:"What's with all the closed captioning? I'm not on mute."
- Haley: You didn't owe it to me to be a decent coach. You owed it to me to be a decent human being.
- Haley: "Gymnastics tells you no. All day long. It mocks you over and over again. Telling you; you're an idiot. That you're crazy. If you like running full speed towards a stationary object, vault's for you. If you like pulling pieces of skin the size of quarters off your hands, bars is for you. Because the only thing more fun then rips, is when your rips get rips. It's super sexy. And floor, are you serious, I mean, who doesn't want to parade around in a leotard getting wedgies and doing dorky choreography. It's delicious. If you like falling, then gymnastics is the sport for you! You get to fall on your face, your ass, your back, your knees, and your pride! It's a good thing I didn't like falling- I LOVED IT!"
- Haley: "If you're gonna eat mat, you eat mat hard. "
[edit] External links
- Touchstone Pictures promotional website
- Stick It at the Internet Movie Database
- Stick It at Gery.pl - Film (pl)
