Ice Castles appears to be operating on a half-finished screenplay, full of major plot points and characters with way too much backstory that aren't remotely fleshed out. The dopiness, schmaltz and soapiness are fun to some degree, but the nonsensical story, bad acting, and painfully repetitive Marvin Hamlisch score wear thin quite quickly. The Oscar-nominated "Through the Eyes of Love" must play in some form fifty times.
Colleen Dewhurst's hammy turn is irresistible, and her over-the-top approach shows how embarrassing Lynn-Holly Johnson's earnestness really is. Johnson has no star quality to speak of; she's a good skater who got lucky and landed the lead. The hilarity reaches its height in the film's finale when we're meant to believe Johnson's blindness is a secret to the world where she was on the cover of Sports Illustrated and a famous Olympic hopeful a mere five months earlier.
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