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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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Not just a skating movie 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 | ||
| 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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I'm a bit older than Tai Babalonia, and growing up I followed her career closely. When she and Randy Gardner had to withdraw from the 1980 Olympics, I was devastated and seeing Tai cry on the ice made me think nothing could get worse that this for her. After seeing this TV movie, I realized there was much more behind this fragile and beautiful skater's life.
Okay, it's a TV movie which make you immediately think of contrived story plots and overly emotional scenes. On Thin Ice may be guilty of some of that, however the message should be clear to anyone that sees their child as a vehicle to attain goals. Tai nearly chose death over living other people's lives. Thankfully she is still with us today. If you are willing to get past production quality, acting ability (which really aren't that bad)and see the movie unvarnished for the story, the message you will receive is that hope can come from despair.