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Win Autographed 'Gracie' Soccer Ball

Film Opens Nationwide June 1

Get on the ball and enter now for your chance to win cool movie prizes in our Entertainment section's contest in conjunction with Picturehouse's release of the inspirational sports drama "Gracie."

The Movie
Set in 1978, Gracie is an inspirational film about a teenage girl who overcomes the loss of her brother and fights the odds to achieve her dream of playing competitive soccer at a time when girls’ soccer did not exist.

Based on true events from the lives of the Shue family (producer and co-star Andrew Shue, Academy Award-nominated actress Elisabeth Shue), the film is directed by Academy Award-winning director Davis Guggenheim ("An Inconvenient Truth"), who happens to be part of the family as well, being married to Elisabeth Shue. The film also features a terrific 1970's soundtrack including classic songs from Boston, Blondie, Aretha Franklin, and Bruce Springsteen.

Living in South Orange N.J., 15-year-old Gracie Bowen (Carly Schroeder) is the only girl in a family of three brothers. Their family life revolves almost entirely around soccer: her father (Dermot Mulroney) and brothers are obsessed with the sport, practicing in the backyard's makeshift field every day from morning until night. However, tragedy unexpectedly strikes when Gracie's older brother Johnny (Jesse Lee Soffer), star of the high school varsity soccer team and Gracie's only protector, is killed in a car accident.

Struggling with grief over her family's loss, Gracie decides to fill the void left on her brother's team by petitioning the school board to allow her to play on the boys' high school varsity soccer team in his place.

Her father, a former soccer star himself, tries to prove to Gracie that she is not tough enough or talented enough to play with boys. Her mother, Lindsey Bowen (Elisabeth Shue) already an outsider in the sports-obsessed family, is no help either. Undeterred, Gracie finds reserves of strength she never knew existed, and persists in changing everyone's beliefs in what she is capable of, including her own.

Gracie not only forces her father to wake up from his grief and see her as the beautiful and strong person that she has always been but she also brings her family together in the face of their tragedy.

Rated PG-13, "Gracie" opens in theaters nationwide June 1.

The Contest
One grand prize-winner will be selected at random to receive a soccer ball signed by Elisabeth Shue, Andrew Shue and Carly Schroeder.

Ten runners-up will be selected at random to receive a "Gracie" pull-string cleat bag and "Gracie" book.

Prize packages in this contest are subject to change.

The contest runs May 23 through June 6. The contest is for U.S. residents only. For a complete set of contest rules, click here.

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