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THE GABBY DOUGLAS STORY

"Never Give Up on Your Dream"

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THE GABBY DOUGLAS STORY is an inspirational biographical movie of the perseverance of Gabby Douglas from humble beginnings to Olympic gold in gymnastics. Gabby is taking lessons with a local gymnastics coach who doesn’t train Gabby to her full potential. An opportunity Gabby calls “fate” brings Olympic coach Liang Chow to her gymnastics school. She’s all the more determined to go to Iowa to train with him. THE GABBY DOUGLAS STORY shows how Gabby’s family pulls together to overcome even greater obstacles to support Gabby’s dreams. When Gabby’s injured during training, she must choose to overcome the obstacles of her mind, body and heart to follow her dream to the 2012 Olympics.

The production quality of THE GABBY DOUGLAS STORY is good with compelling, heartfelt performances and an inspiring message of faith, sacrifice, and perseverance. The movie has a number of heartfelt moments, with only minor, light questionable elements. Overall, THE GABBY DOUGLAS STORY has a strong moral worldview supported by some overt Christian references, including a prayer. THE GABBY DOUGLAS STORY is a heartfelt, historical, inspiring movie for the whole family.

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(BB, CC, PP, CapCap, D, M) Strong moral worldview includes title characters mother teaching her children to do what’s right, children are patient, giving and loving toward their mom and each other in spite of the lack of finances in their household, supported by Christian elements where heroines mother prays with one of her daughters and heroines siblings make sacrifices so she can follow her dream to be an Olympic gymnast someday, with strong Pro-American, capitalist content supporting the American Dream and striving for excellence; no foul language; no violence; no sex; no nudity, but young girl’s back is shown as she takes a bubble bath; no alcohol use; no smoking or illegal drugs, but mother takes prescription pills prescribed for migraine headaches; and, an absent father, a mention of “fate,” and heroine speaks disrespectfully to mother but later apologizes.

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THE GABBY DOUGLAS STORY is an inspirational biographical movie now available on DVD of the Olympic gold medalist in gymnastics, from her humble beginnings to her road for Olympic gold.

The story opens with Gabby Douglas chalking/powdering up her hands before going out on the gymnastics floor to compete. The story then cuts to December 31, 1995 in Newport News, Virginia where Natalie Douglas (Regina King) gives birth to Gabby who is born with an incurable blood disorder. While their four children are still very young, Gabby’s father gets a job out-of-state and packs up the family. However, he loses the job and is unable to afford a place to stay. The father continues to be hopeful about getting work, but after what has been a long cycle of years of poverty, evictions, loans, bad credit, joblessness, and homelessness, Natalie makes a hard decision to work for a better life for her and the children without their father.

Natalie gets a job. In time, she excels as a debt collection specialist, and she and her children are able to move into a modest house in a nice neighborhood. Natalie posts a board for dreams and goals and encourages each of them to put their goal on the board. Gabby (Sidney Mikayla) learns all she can from her older sister about gymnastics with ease and shows a natural ability for it. During the 2008 Olympics, Gabby is mesmerized and inspired by gymnast Shaun Johnson and her coach Liang Chow and believes in her heart he will be her coach one day. Meanwhile, Gabby takes lessons with Dirk (David Haydn-Jones), a local gymnastics coach, who doesn’t train Gabby to her fullest potential.

When an opportunity Gabby calls “fate” brings Olympic coach Liang Chow to her gymnastics school, she’s is all the more determined to go to Iowa to train with him. Her family pulls together to overcome even greater obstacles to support Gabby going to Iowa. Coach Liang even finds a caring host family that will allow Gabby to stay in their home for the next two years to train for the next Olympics.

However, after much hard work, a hamstring injury threatens her Olympic dreams. Gabby struggles with her body, mind and heart, to persevere to get back on track for the Olympics, even giving up at one point. Eventually, she makes it to the Olympic Trials as an alternate and outscores her top opponents. As we all know, Gabby goes on to the 2012 Olympics and wins the gold medal more than once.

THE GABBY DOUGLAS STORY is an inspiring story of faith, sacrifice and perseverance. There are a number of heartfelt moments and performances by Regina King as Gabby’s mother, Imani Hakim as Gabby in her teen years, and Brian Tee, who plays Liang Chow. There are only minor, light questionable elements. So, the movie has a strong moral worldview supported by some overt Christian references, including a prayer. THE GABBY DOUGLAS STORY is a heartfelt, historical, inspiring movie for the whole family.

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Now more than ever we’re bombarded by darkness in media, movies, and TV. Movieguide® has fought back for almost 40 years, working within Hollywood to propel uplifting and positive content. We’re proud to say we’ve collaborated with some of the top industry players to influence and redeem entertainment for Jesus. Still, the most influential person in Hollywood is you. The viewer.

What you listen to, watch, and read has power. Movieguide® wants to give you the resources to empower the good and the beautiful. But we can’t do it alone. We need your support.

You can make a difference with as little as $7. It takes only a moment. If you can, consider supporting our ministry with a monthly gift. Thank you.

Movieguide® is a 501c3 and all donations are tax deductible.


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