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On Thin Ice: The Tai Babilonia Story (1990) (TV)
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5 November 1990 (USA) morePlot:
The true story of Olympic champion figure skater Tai Babilonia, her rise to fame and her fall from grace. | add synopsisAwards:
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Good True Story ... moreCast
(Complete credited cast) | Rachael Crawford | ... | Tai Babilonia |
| Charlie Stratton | ... | Randy Gardner (as Charlie Stratton) |
 | Denise Nicholas | ... | Cleo Babilonia |
 | Chuck Shamata | ... | Connie Babilonia Sr. |
| Christianne Hirt | ||
| Michael Phillip Edwards | ||
| William Daniels | ... | John Nicks |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Drake Arden | ||
| Ardon Bess | ||
| Robbie Budd | ||
| Deborah Burgess | ||
| Stan Coles | ||
| Suzanne Coy | ||
| Ken Daniels | ||
| Nick De Kruyff | ||
| Donna Farron | ||
| David Ferry | ||
| Don Francks | ||
 | David Fraser | ... | Sarcastic Reporter |
| Marc Greenspan | ||
| Renee Haberstock | ||
| Kevin Hicks | ||
 | Bill Lake | ||
| Shawn Lawrence | ||
| Cec Linder | ||
 | Nicole Lyn | ... | Young Tai |
| Gerry Mendicino | ||
| Richard Mills | ||
| Alex Both Nacsa | ||
| Dave Nichols | ||
| Darren O'Donnell | ||
| Julian Peters | ||
| Brian Pockar | ... | Skating Double |
| Rino Romano | ||
 | Andrew Sabiston | ||
| Venessa M. Sanchez | ||
 | Benson Simmonds | ||
 | Gloria Slade | ||
| Victoria Snow | ||
| Sandi Stahlbrand | ||
| Ryan Stirling | ... | Skating Double |
| Lea-Helen Weir | ||
| Gina Wilkinson | ||
 | Lenore Zann | ||
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This was a reasonably good movie. The acting was decent and the storyline keeps you engaged to follow along to see whether Tai gets back into skating or becomes a different person. True stories have the allure that you're watching something that more or less really happened and you get to learn how an individual progressed through a transformational or turbulent time.
This movie was no exception - I wanted to continue to watch the movie to see where Tai ended up and how bad things were going to get ... and what happens to Randy, her kindly (as portrayed) skating partner. Knowing that the events portrayed occurred decades ago, I knew I'd find out the short and long term answers.
As far as the characters - Tai was the only believable character in this movie - the rest of the cast came across as pretty vanilla, one-dimensional and predictable. But that's OK, the movie is still reasonably good.
For the general viewer, this is a pretty good made-for-TV movie; if you're into skating history - definitely a movie to watch.