Stick It (2006)
Haley is a naturally gifted athlete but, with her social behavior, the teen seems intent on squandering her abilities. After a final brush with the law, a judge sentences her to an elite gymnastics academy run by a legendary, hard-nosed coach. Once there, Haley's rebellious attitude wins her both friends and enemies.
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Stick It (2006)
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Released Year: 2006
Runtime: 105 minutes
Directors: Jessica Bendinger
Writers: Jessica Bendinger
Casts: Kellan Lutz, Gia Carides, John Patrick Amedori, Annie Corley, Jon Gries, Jeff Bridges, Missy Peregrym, Polly Holliday, Svetlana Efremova, Vanessa Lengies, Maddy Curley, Nikki SooHoo, Mio Dzakula, Tim Daggett, Bart Conner, Julie Warner, Tarah Paige, Elfi Schlegel, Brian Gattas, Harrison Wills, Calli Ryals
IMDB: Stick It (2006)
Storyline
Haley is a naturally gifted athlete but, with her social behavior, the teen seems intent on squandering her abilities. After a final brush with the law, a judge sentences her to an elite gymnastics academy run by a legendary, hard-nosed coach. Once there, Haley's rebellious attitude wins her both friends and enemies.
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The New York Times -
A spry teenage comedy that gets everything right, Stick It takes the usual batch of underdogs, dirt bags, mean girls and bimbos and sends them somersaulting through happy clichés and unexpected invention.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer -
A sports empowerment fantasy of the best kind.
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The A.V. Club -
So along with being fake punk-rock, Stick It is also a fake protest movie. That leaves the only traces of genuineness to Bridges, who plays the coach with a fatherly patience that earns him a paycheck, but not the better film he deserves.
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Chicago Tribune -
Stick It reels from its own frenetic pace. The music is loud, the camera cuts are incessant and everything seems geared toward distracting us from what's going on onscreen. Which is not much.
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Austin Chronicle -
Like "Bring It On," Stick It is so much better than most of its insipid teen-movie peers yet like her earlier movie, Bendinger's new one is also not all it might be.
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