It's a good, clean movie. But the relationship between the two leads is so focused on the coaching and friendship, that there's no romantic development. The whole subplot of the middle-aged man proposing to the restaurant owner should have been abandoned, to make room for the main plots.
The ending didn't clarify what happens next. Is Emily going back to the restaurant? Is she going to continue skating in the leagues? Did she get that sponsorship, because her friend brought that guy to the finals.
Nicky's mom was such a ridiculous control freak in the first half of the movie, that I wanted a scene of Nicky standing up to her. Or at least a scene of her apologizing. But the movie didn't deliver that.
The ending didn't clarify what happens next. Is Emily going back to the restaurant? Is she going to continue skating in the leagues? Did she get that sponsorship, because her friend brought that guy to the finals.
Nicky's mom was such a ridiculous control freak in the first half of the movie, that I wanted a scene of Nicky standing up to her. Or at least a scene of her apologizing. But the movie didn't deliver that.