Back in 1992,it was the Olympic year and The Cutting Edge was released.It romantic comedy film.The plot is about a very rich, spoiled figure skater Kate Mosley,played by Moira Kelly,who is paired with a has-been ice hockey player,Doug Dorsey,played by D. B. Sweeney for Olympic figure skating. They face off against a Soviet pair in the climax of the film, which is set at the site of the 16th Winter Olympic Games, in Albertville, France.Kate Mosley is a world-class figure skater training for the 1988 Winter Olympics. She has genuine talent, but years of being spoiled by her wealthy father have made her all but impossible to work with. Doug Dorsey is an exceptional hockey player with drive, skill, and a full complement of arrogance. His team is also in the Olympics. Doug suffers an eye injury during that game which damages his peripheral vision, and he is forced to retire from the sport. In the lead-up to the next Winter Olympics four years later, Kate has driven out all potential skating partners with her attitude and perfectionism; her coach, Anton Pamchenko, needs to find another replacement. He proceeds to track down Doug, who by now is back home in Minnesota, working in a steel mill and playing in a semi- professional hockey league on the side. Desperate for another chance at Olympic glory, Doug agrees to work as Kate's partner, even though he has a macho contempt for figure skating. However, Kate's snooty, prima donna behavior gets on his nerves immediately. The first few practices between them do not go well. In time, though, their relationship grows warmer, and they learn to work together and become a pair to be reckoned with both on and off the ice.They advance all the way to the finals in Albertville and look to be one of the top pairs competing for the gold.Everything is going well until they realize that they have fallen in love with each other. Doug and Kate are forced to reconcile these new feelings with their mutual desire to win at all costs.Although a lot of the thematic formulas were applied in this film from other movies like sports underdog,unlikely romance from two people from different backgrounds,the United States-Soviet Union rivalry and many more,Cutting Edge works as it was entertaining from beginning to end.Credit that to the brilliant screenplay from Tony Gilroy.Despite of applying many clichés that have been used in many romantic comedies,the story was presented in a way that the viewer will find it both original,refreshing and surprisingly addictive. Added to that,there great chemistry between Kelly and Sweeney that the viewer will definitely be engaged in their characters.Aside from that,their performance made it heartwarming due to their honest portrayal.Both made the film engaging and surprisingly addictive.And of course,the one could never forget the 90's soundtrack in the movie led by Joe Cocker's Feel Like Forever.Overall,I consider this one of the best romantic comedy/sports movie ever released.

After viewing The Cutting Edge I realize that I saw some of this same story a few weeks ago when I watched Sonja Henie in It's Your Pleasure. In that film Michael O'Shea is a professional hockey player who gets banned for life after slugging a referee and Henie recruits and trains him to be her partner in her ice show.No professionals here just talented amateurs. D.B. Sweeney takes a nasty blow during the Olympics in Calgary which robs him of peripheral vision on one side, bad for hockey player where you have to see some opponents coming up on both sides if you have the puck. His career, his hopes of making it to the National Hockey League is over.At the same time Moira Kelly is a talented, but really temperamental figure skater, a Tonya Harding in the making, who blows the finals at Calgary when she and her partner fail to land a big move. She's decided she needs a new partner. If she's to do well at Albertville four years later she has to have a new partner. But the problem is that she's got such a bad reputation no one will skate with her.I think you can see where this one is going without too much trouble. The problem I had with The Cutting Edge is the same one I had with the Sonja Henie film, the skills for hockey skating aren't the same for figure skating. I really can't see a Maurice Richard or a Gordie Howe ever making it in figure skating.Still Sweeney and Kelly are an attractive couple and through some clever editing, distance and rear view cinematography, and shots of them from the neck up on ice you do get the feeling you are watching them if only for a moment. Of course Kelly will never be confused with Sonja Henie and they didn't even try to actually show Michael O'Shea as a figure skater. But both Sweeney and Kelly look far better than James Stewart, Joan Crawford, and Lew Ayres did as skaters in Ice Follies Of 1939.This is definitely a nice film for fans of figure skating and young romance.

'Kate' (Moira Kelly, looking as beautiful as ever) is a gorgeous figure skater and 'Doug' (D.B. Sweeney) is a handsome hockey player who's come a long way, but only for lunch after he meets temperamental Moira.The two head-strong skaters are persuaded by their skating coach 'Anton' (Roy Dotrice, in an enlightening performance) to go pairs at the Nationals and then on to the Olympics while Anton and Kate's over-protective, but loving father 'Jack' (Terry O'Quinn) stand by and watch the fireworks.Engaging film with the refreshing quality of being about something different: a hockey player-turned-figure skater. Well-directed by Paul Michael Glaser.

I watched the sequel first, I thought that it was pretty good. So I watched this one after, wow, I am totally impressed. The camera person certainly did a much better job than the person who shot the second movie.In the sequel movie, you can clearly see the faces of those doubles, and instantly tell when they first appear. That breaks the continuity of that movie because you are constantly reminded that they are not the real deal. In this first movie, the cinematographer hid those doubles' identities very well with different angles and lighting, I certainly can't tell which is which. It looked as if those two characters can really skate.And they acted well, so you believed in them. In the sequel, those two actors played hard, but you can tell that they don't really have the connections.And it has that certain appeal of the 80's movie, the music, the clothes they wear. So it can be a good nostalgia movie for those who love the 80's.