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A 2006 teen sports dramedy written and directed by Jessica Bendinger (Bring It On), starring Jeff Bridges and Missy Peregrym.Stick It is the story of 17-year-old Haley Graham (Peregrym), a former world-level gymnast who is thrust back into the world of gymnastics as a sentence from her run-in with the law for vandalism. She ends up at Vickerman Gymnastics Academy, where Coach Burt Vickerman (Bridges) persuades her to compete in an upcoming invitational, and to use the winnings to help pay off some of the property damage. Haley's presence is badly received by her fellow competitors, and so instead of practicing with the group, she practices on her own out in the old gym. Haley likes to perform wild and extreme tricks, not "cookie-cutter routines", but has a hard time controlling them, and sticking her landings, and ends up having to go to Vickerman for help. | |
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Retired Badass | |
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Retired Bad Ass: Burt and Haley. | |
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Those Two Guys | |
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Those Two Guys: Frank and Poot. | |
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Heterosexual Life-Partners | |
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Heterosexual Life-Partners: Poot and Frank. Lampshaded when one introduces the other as his "Hetero Life Mate". | |
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Brutal Honesty | |
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Brutal Honesty: | |
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Defrosting Ice Queen | |
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Defrosting Ice Queen: By the end of the film, Joanne stops being the Alpha Bitch and works with her teammates. | |
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Two Guys and a Girl | |
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Two Guys and a Girl Haley, Frank, and Poot are portrayed as this. | |
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Person as Verb: Referenced by Haley in the "insanely high mountains" scene when she talks about how gymnastics tricks are named after the gymnasts who did them first. | |
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Training Montage | |
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Training Montage: Haley's narration of her training to get back in shape makes it one of the most hilarious versions of the trope to date. | |
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Defiant Strip | |
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Defiant Strip: A variation of this trope plays a major role in the climax. At the National Gymnastics Championships, Mina performs an incredibly complicated routine on the vault without making a single mistake, but doesn't get a perfect score because one of her bra straps inadvertently started showing, which makes her lose points. Protagonist Haley is the next to go, but instead steps up to the horse used for the vault, pulls down her leotard to show her bra strap, and taps the equipment. This action, known as a "scratch," immediately disqualifies her (because you can touch the equipment only one time; once you break contact, you're done). The other contestants realize what Haley is doing and join the cause, with each woman stepping up, showing her bra strap, and touching the horse, forcing the judges to award Mina the gold medal by default. The gymnasts then team up to deliberately subvert the judges' archaic rules by unanimously deciding the best athlete on each event and then disqualifying themselves to ensure that she wins the gold medal. | |
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Parental Substitute | |
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Parental Substitute: The coach. What else are they for? Teaching? Psht. | |
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Malaproper | |
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Malaproper: Joanne. | |
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The Snark Knight | |
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The Snark Knight: Haley. | |
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Greasy Spoon | |
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Greasy Spoon: Vickerman takes Haley to one when she tries to run away from VGA. | |
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Tomboy with a Girly Streak | |
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Tomboy with a Girly Streak: Haley Graham is as much The Lad-ette as you can possibly be in a sport that involves beaming, heavily made-up teenage girls dancing around to pop music in bright, spangly leotards. | |
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Heel–Face Turn | |
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Heel–Face Turn: Joanne. Also Tricia, at the end of Nationals. | |
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Big Brother Instinct | |
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Big Brother Instinct: Poot asks about Haley's well-being throughout the movie. | |
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Jerkass Has a Point | |
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Jerkass Has a Point: It's actually pretty understandable that Tricia and some other gymnasts would resent Haley for what happened at Worlds. Yes, Haley had just learned some devastating news, but it was still a team final she walked out on, at the biggest event of the year no less, and because it's an every-score-counts format (as opposed to one that allows teams to drop a score), what she did had massive consequences for her teammates (including Tricia); this was something they would have been working towards for most of their lives, they had presumably competed their hearts out in that final, and it was all on the verge of paying off, and then at the last minute Haley yanked that out from under them (and keep in mind too that they had no idea what was going on behind the scenes that led to this — as far as they knew, she just up and quit on the team for seemingly no reason). What's more, she did it in about the worst way possible by going up to the podium and then walking out, forcing her team to take the zero, rather than withdrawing before going up which would have allowed the team to make a substitution. If she had walked out in an individual final where the only person she would be hurting was herself, it would have been different. As for the gymnasts who weren't there to be directly affected, many of them were probably thinking they would have killed to be on that team, and from their perspective Haley got that and then just threw it away — especially if any of them were in contention for the team, but didn't get a spot while Haley did. | |
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Serious Business | |
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Serious Business: Walk out of a competition for no apparent reason? Prepare to be mocked, mistreated, and hated by every fellow gymnast you encounter! (To be fair, a Worlds team final would be pretty serious business for just about any gymnast, and costing the team a medal like that would be a huge deal.) As shown at the climax, a visible bra strap is worth a half-point deduction. At the time, that was about the same deduction as for a fall. | |
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Mandatory Unretirement | |
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Mandatory Unretirement: Haley was forced back into gymnastics after getting into trouble with vandalism, though not everyone seems happy she is back. She shocked everyone after she scratched out of Worlds, basically screwing her team and teammates like Tricia, which she takes heat for when she comes back. See Retired Badass. It's understandable that she quit after finding out her coach was having an affair with her mother, though she kept that to herself. | |
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Like Brother and Sister | |
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Like Brother and Sister: There isn't a hint of romantic attraction between Haley, Frank, and Poot. | |
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Reality Is Unrealistic | |
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Reality Is Unrealistic: Missy Peregrym is well over the average height of a female gymnast (which is 4'9") at 5'6", but while this makes it harder, it's not impossible to compete at that level at her height, and there are some gymnasts of that height who compete and have success at the elite level — take for instance Belgium's Nina Derwael, who, at 5'7", is a two-time world champion and Olympic gold medalist on bars. | |
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Badass Biker | |
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Badass Biker: Haley is introduced riding her BMX through a residential construction site. | |
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Truth in Television | |
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Truth in Television: Sadly, many of the complaints made about the current gymnastics judging system are all too based in reality (at the 2005 World Championships, shortly before the film aired, the best scores were in the 9.5 range, with a 9.6 or better being almost out of the question, and it's only gotten harsher since then), although this was exaggerated for the film. | |
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Conflict Killer | |
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Conflict Killer: Whatever conflict existed between the gymnasts gets an abrupt death when the plot arrives to nationals and the judges' overly petty judging methods take center stage. | |
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As Himself | |
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As Himself: Nastia Liukin had a small role two years before she won Olympic gold. Gymnastics fans will recognize Bart Conner, Tim Daggett, and Elfi Schlegel as commentators, and some of the gymnasts in the background as NCAA gymnasts. | |
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Accentuate the Negative | |
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Accentuate the Negative: What the girls feel the judges are doing. | |
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Imagine Spot | |
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Imagine Spot: Before competing, Haley tells Mina and Wei Wei that when she's nervous, she always imagines the judges trying to do their routines. The result is ridiculously entertaining. | |
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Chekhov's Skill | |
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Chekhov's Skill: Two examples. Wei Wei is reprimanded since her dancing doesn't fit the traditional gymnastics style, but she uses them in a nontraditional routine at nationals to win the crowd. Haley uses the Buttahara to protest Vickerman's training and again at nationals to protest the hidebound judges. | |
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The Lad-ette | |
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The Lad-ette: Haley is a rebellious, sarcastic, BMX-riding tomboy who, when she's not doing gymnastics, usually wears baggy pants and men's shirts. | |
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It Makes Sense in Context | |
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It Makes Sense in Context: The title itself. It sounds like something sex-related until you find out what the movie's about, or even when you find out it's a movie. | |
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Color-Coded Characters | |
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Color-Coded Characters: All the gymnasts wear different-colored leotards at practice that match their personalities. Wei Wei is yellow, Joanne wears pale pink, Mina wears blue, and Haley is the only one wearing black. | |
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Used to Be a Sweet Kid | |
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Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Haley's dad says this almost verbatim to her. | |
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Grew a Spine: Joanne eventually stands up to her overbearing mother. | |
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Evil Former Friend | |
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Evil Former Friend: Teased when Haley sees Tricia again at nationals. Ultimately subverted when Tricia joins Haley's rebellion. | |
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Inner Monologue | |
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Inner Monologue: Haley, mostly about the gymnastic world. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: Haley lives with her dad in Plano, Texas, which may be a subtle shout-out to the fact that Nastia Liukin lives in the same area. It may also be a shout-out to the fact that the (now former) women's national training center, the Karolyi Ranch, is in Texasnote before 2001, the Karolyi Ranch was in fact also an elite level gym, training names like Mary Lou Retton, Kim Zmeskal, and Dominique Moceanu, or the fact that Texas was at the time home to two international quality gyms — WOGAnote World Olympic Gymnastics Academy and Texas Dreams. note That number would later increase to three with the opening of World Champions Centre in 2014. In fact, it has been fairly conclusively proven that if it were allowed, Texas could probably qualify its own team of gymnasts to the Olympic team finals. | |
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Freudian Excuse | |
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Freudian Excuse: When you meet Joanne's mom, it explains a lot. | |
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Troubled, but Cute | |
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Troubled, but Cute: Haley, most definitely. | |
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Teen Genius | |
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Teen Genius: Only briefly stated, but apparently Haley got her GED when she was 15. | |
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Cool Old Lady | |
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Cool Old Lady: The court judge who is in charge of Haley's case. | |
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Bait-and-Switch Boss | |
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Bait-and-Switch Boss: The film builds up the rivalry between Haley and Tricia, but at nationals, Tricia is superseded by the judges themselves, who use antiquated rules to punish gymnasts and coaches they dislike. Tricia even joins Haley's rebellion. | |
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Writers Cannot Do Math | |
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Writers Cannot Do Math: On the first day of Nationals, Tricia qualifies to only one event final (floor), but somehow wins the all-around, meaning she had the highest score of the day despite finishing outside the top eight on three out of four events. While it's not technically impossible, it is extremely improbable, especially given that another gymnast (Haley) qualified to all four finals; the math on that would require things to play out in a pretty exceptional way, but there's no indication that that happened.note It might be stretched to make sense for the beam final (in which she was originally an alternate) as an injury situation that prevented her competing in the other finals — beam is probably the least physically demanding of the four, with many upper-level JO gymnasts able to "perform" an elite-level beam routine on a line on the floor, and gymnasts have even done "no hands" routines in the past to accommodate arm or shoulder injuries — but if that were the case, she presumably wouldn't still be planning on competing in the floor final (even if it's an upper body injury, it would be almost impossible to do an elite floor routine without some hand support elements like round-offs or handsprings), and yet she does plan to compete on floor. | |
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The Ditz | |
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The Ditz: Joanne. | |
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Artistic License – Sports: Though the film is impressively researched, the filmmakers did ignore one critical fact at Nationals — to be in contention for a vault medal, a gymnast must perform two vaults from two different vault families. Mina only performs one. This omission is likely due to dramatic license — two vaults would only complicate the plot needlessly. The format of Nationals in the film is that the first day is the All-Around and the qualifier for event finals, and the second day is event finals. However, while some countries do conduct their national championships this way, the format of USA Nationals is that all gymnasts get a chance to compete all events both days, and then the combined scores from both days are used to determine all-around and event rankings. The USA has used this two-day cumulative score format at least as far back as the late 1980s, so it's not just a matter of the film being a little behind the times either. Like the previous entry, this is likely because that format — which would mean a lot more gymnasts on the floor and multiple competitors performing at once — would make the rebellion next to impossible to pull off (if nothing else, there would have been other routines happening at the same time as Mina's vault, which would mean at least one score per event on the board before Haley scratches on vault to start things off). If there were event finals at Nationals, calling up an alternate to compete in one of the finals after it's already started (as is done with Tricia on beam) would be wildly irregular and probably a violation of multiple rules — alternates are only allowed to come in to replace athletes who withdraw before the start of the competition, not those who scratch in the moment. At most they could put Tricia out to do an "exhibition" routine just to give the crowd something to watch, but an exhibition routine explicitly means it's not an official part of the competition* this famously happened to Gabby Douglas at the 2012 American Cup, where she technically got the highest cumulative score for her exhibition set but as she wasn't an official participant, it didn't "count" for medal purposes, so Tricia wouldn't be in contention for a medal even with all the other routines being scratches. Theoretically, it's maybe possible that the judges and the people running nationals conspired to disregard those rules due to the situation, but if that were the case, surely at least one of the coaches/other gymnasts would have said something like "they can't do that, it's against the rules", but they never even mention this. One important aspect that the film doesn't go into is that gymnasts need to be 100% mentally capable as many of the stunts especially the vault are incredibly dangerous. Haley dropping out for unknown personal reasons might have been better received among her fellow gymnastics in reality. Simone Biles dropping out of several events in the 2020 Olympics due to mental performance issues comes to mind. Simone faced zero criticism from anyone connected to gymnastics as they understood how dangerous not being mentally prepared for competition is (although whether the reaction in the early 2000s would be the same as what it was in 2021 given the rise of mental health awareness in the interim is anyone's guess). | |
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A-Cup Angst | |
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A-Cup Angst: Discussed by the gymnasts when they see "civilian" girls with boyfriends, and one blames their lack of romance on their lack of breasts. | |
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Jerkass | |
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Jerkass: Haley's mom, Joanne's mom, and Haley's former coach. And don't get us started on the judges at finals. Unbelievable. Then there's that one girl that splashes a soda on Haley during the competition, ruining her outfit for no reason other than "That's for Worlds!" Girl, that probably wasn't even related to you! Vickerman acted like one towards Haley in some cases, but usually just to prove a point. | |
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Technician Versus Performer | |
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Technician Versus Performer: Tricia Skilken (technician) versus Haley Graham (performer). Subverted in the fact that Haley does have the skills to match Tricia, and even top her; she's just erratic, in that sometimes she nails it and sometimes she "can't control [her] tricks." A more traditional example in Tricia versus Wei Wei; the former earns a higher technical score, the latter inspires the audience with creativity and passion even if she's less skillful. | |
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Platonic Life-Partners | |
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Platonic Life-Partners: Haley's relationship with Frank and Poot. The simple fact that she doesn't have a love interest is actually one of the things people compliment this movie for. It passes the Bechdel Test with flying colors. | |
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Cool Big Sis | |
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Cool Big Sis: Haley eventually becomes this to the other gymnasts after they warm up to her. | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: "I got a feeling something bad's gonna happen..." (cue silent-but-deadly fart) | |
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Comically Missing the Point | |
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Comically Missing the Point: Joanne, on several occasions. | |
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Fun with Subtitles | |
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Fun with Subtitles: Haley has some fun with 'Astrological Signs' in the beginning of the movie. | |
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Talent Double | |
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Talent Double: But the talent doubles are very, very good, and the additional competitors at both competitions were virtually all either NCAA or elite amateur gymnasts - including names like Nastia Liukin, Mohini Bhardwaj, and Allana Slater. Tarah Paige (Tricia Skilken), a former senior elite gymnast, did her own stunts, as did Liukin. | |
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Evil Is Petty | |
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Evil Is Petty: It's made perfectly clear that the judges in the finals deduct points out of incredibly persnickety reasons (half a point for bra strap allegedly showing even when it's impossible for the film's audience to see that, for example) or, in Haley's case, sheer spite (they deduct points from her routines because they don't like her coach). | |
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Shown Their Work | |
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Shown Their Work: When Haley lists off the named skills (aka "insanely high mountains") she is training - Geinger, Rulfova, Chusovitina, Shaposhnikova - the skills she is shown performing correspond exactly with the name of the gymnast who first performed them. For instance, when the narration says 'Chusovitina', Haley is seen doing a full-twisting double backflip dismount from the uneven bars, a skill which Oksana Chusovitina had named after her.note Specifically, the dismount Chusovitina debuted was a "full-out" — a double backflip with a full twist on the second flip. In the film Haley actually performs a full-in; however, real-life limitations — namely, that only a scant handful of gymnasts have performed a full-out dismount since Oksana Chusovitina debuted it in the '90s, so finding a stunt athlete who could learn it would be extremely difficult — certainly make this "error" forgivable. | |
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