The Cutting Edge 3: Chasing the Dream (2008) (TV)

Director:

Stuart Gillard

Writers (WGA):

Randall M. Badat (teleplay)
Susan Estelle Jansen (story) ...

Release Date:

16 March 2008 (USA)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Sequel | Third Part

Cast

Matt Lanter	...	Zack Conroy
Francia Raisa	...	Alejandra 'Alex' Delgado
Sarah Gadon	...	Celeste Mercier
Stefano DiMatteo	...	Bryan Hemmings (as Stefano Matteo Colacitti)
Ben Hollingsworth	...	Jason Bright (as Benjamin Hollingsworth)
Luis Oliva	...	Bobby Delgado
Alycia Purrott	...	Misha Pressel
Christy Carlson Romano	...	Jackie Dorsey (as Christy Romano)
Stephanie Valois	...	Cindy Halgyord
Rod Black	...	TV Commentator
Lori Graham	...	TV Commentator
Marcela Pizarro	...	TV Commentator
Marco Ledezma	...	TV Commentator
Lucinda Davis	...	Reporter
Danny Blanco	...	Reporter (as Danny Blanco-Hall)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for some sexual references.

Runtime:

USA:90 min (TV version)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Certification:

USA:PG-13 | Finland:K-7 | Argentina:13 | Netherlands:6

Filming Locations:

Montréal, Québec, Canada

Company:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Trivia:

Skating doubles Fred Palascak (for Matt Lanter) and Melanie Lambert (for Francia Raisa) are husband and wife and both appear in the UK TV show "Dancing on Ice" (2006/I). Also appearing on the show is Olympic gold medal winner, Robin Cousins, who had a cameo appearance in the first film of this franchise, The Cutting Edge (1992). (Robin, who is British, was dubbed by an American actor for his role.)

Goofs:

Factual errors: When Jackie sees Zach and Alex walk into the ice rink where she's teaching kids how to ice skate, she says, "Zach Conroy, it's been what, five years since Torino." Later, in Paris, the signs around the rink say 'Paris 2008.' The 2006 Winter Olympics were in Torino, making it only two years later instead of five.

Quotes:

Alejandra Delgado: We all get a little lonely, no matter how much company we have. It's all a part of life's deal.

Movie Connections:

References The Cutting Edge (1992)

Soundtrack:

El Rey de la Calle

Matt Lanter is the star.

This TV movie would not be as good as it is, if Matt Lanter was not in it. He looks really pretty throughout the movie.

Several stock scenes of Seattle were repeated in this movie. It was not necessary.

During their "Paris" competition, it is obvious that the arena is the same as they used for the US national competition. And it looks totally unreal, because there was no advertisement around the skating area. And the signs were all in English.

Matt was wearing all those skin tight hot looking, colorful lycra t-shirts which made him incredibly hot. Male figure skaters always wear those skin tight, fancy looking pants and tops when they compete. Why did the costume people give him those boring long sleeves shirt and regular pants to wear when he was competing? Unlike the "Cutting Edge 2" movie, the body doubles' faces were not very visible which is good.

The story is almost predicable. Of course, this is expected for most of the inspirational movies.