Miracle tells the story of the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team that rallied the entire country in a time of little hope.

While the country was going through a very bad time with the Iran hostage crisis, a bunch of college hockey players went to the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, with little hope of winning any type of medal against the professionals that made up the teams of the other nations.

The Russian hockey team at the time was especially good and was favored to win the gold medal easily with their only real challenges coming from the skilled European teams.

No one believed that the rag-tag bunch of Americans could even reach the medal round of play.

When they did, though, they were matched against the Soviets, so again they should have had no shot to win. You would never have known by the way the Americans played on that day back in 1980, though.

Kurt Russell (Tombstone, Backdraft) plays an amazing and inspiring role as U.S. coach Herb Brooks, and the way that this team uplifts the spirits of a nation is inspiring to all.

What this team meant to a demoralized nation at that time is not limited to just the world of sports. The game against the Soviets was actually the starting point for the “U-S-A, U-S-A” chants that are now heard all around the country at sporting events and patriotic rallies.

You do not have to know anything about hockey, and you do not even have to like sports to enjoy this film.

Even without any knowledge of the game being played you will walk out of this movie smiling and full of national pride.