Casey Carlyle, a brilliant high school science student, who hopes to win a Harvard scholarship with a physics project. Her teacher advises her to find an original subject, and she gets a brainstorm. What if she films figure skaters, analyzes their movements on her computer, and comes up with a set of physics equations describing what they do and suggesting how they might improve? Casey has always been a science nerd. She's pretty but doesn't know it, and so shy "I can't talk to anyone I haven't known since kindergarten." She goes to the ice rink in her Connecticut town, run by Tina Harwood, herself an Olympic figure skating contender until a disqualification at Saravejo. Casey's computer program works. She breaks down the moves, analyzes the physics and advises Gen and other skaters on what they can change to improve their performance. Along the way, a funny thing happens. Casey has always enjoyed skating on the pond near her home, and now she grows fascinated by figure skating, and wants to start training.
This is horrifying news for her mom, a feminist and teacher who is pointing Casey toward Harvard and sniffs, "Figure skaters have no shelf life." Starts with a formula and then takes it to the next level. We have two obsessive stage mothers and two driven overachievers, and the girls want to trade places, to the despair of their mom. This leads to more substance than we're expecting, and more acting. They strike out with opinions and surprises of their own.
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