Gracie is a 2007 American historical sports drama film directed by Davis Guggenheim. It stars Carly Schroeder as Gracie Bowen, Dermot Mulroney as Bryan Bowen, Elisabeth Shue as Lindsay Bowen, Jesse Lee Soffer as Johnny Bowen, and Andrew Shue as Coach Owen Clark.
Gracie takes place in New Jersey, United States in 1978 before Title IX (which was passed in 1972) had a chance to take effect and when organized women's soccer was still very rare in the United States. Gracie, the film's central protagonist, overcomes the loss of her brother by convincing her family and school to allow her to play varsity soccer on an all-boys team. It is loosely based on the childhood experiences of Elisabeth Shue.
The novelization Gracie (by fantasy and science fiction author Suzanne Weyn) was released in June 2007.
It is 1978 and 15 year old Tomboy Gracie Bowen (Carly Schroeder), who lives in South Orange, New Jersey, is crazy about Soccer, as are her three brothers, neighbor, and former soccer star father (Dermot Mulroney). Although Gracie wants to join her brothers and father in the nightly practices, she is discouraged by everyone except her elder brother, Johnny (Jesse Lee Soffer). The game at their school Columbia High School (New Jersey) comes by with Johnny as the star soccer player on the Varsity team, the last shot is about to happen and he misses it. He then is sad, but gets over it. He then gets in his friend's car and drives off.
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Gracie
Gracie takes the bottles from the porch we you had left them,
There are age old dregs of wine you never shared.
Drivin' down the motorway, with all the best intentions,
She's a picture of perfection with her cut and coloured hair.
But it's you she thinks of in the hours while she's awake,
She takes her lipstick from her case to make a smile.
You she thinks of when she thinks of her mistakes,
Regrets, an open road that streches out for miles.
Coffee pots and bottle tops, and all of this disorder,
She soaks the plates in the dishwater 'til it's cold.
Her reflection in the windows of the stores around the corner,
Walk beside her as she's stridin' down the road.
But it's you she thinks of in the hours while she's awake,
She takes her lipstick from her case to make a smile.
You she thinks of when she thinks of her mistakes,
Regrets, an open road that streches out for miles.
lalalalalalalala, lalalalalalala, lalalalalalala, lalalalalalala
lalalalalalala.
You, she thinks of in the hours while she's awake,
She takes her lipstick from her case to make a smile.
You she thinks of when she thinks of her mistakes,
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Gracie had a baby, she grew up, she was only seventeen
Something like a stranger and no one can recall
The way she used to smile.
Now in a one-horse town, no one ever seems to
Give a damn. But she could feel the fingers pointing:
Eyes like knives and needles on her back
Oh Grace is gone.
Gracie told the taxi: 'take me as far as I can go'
She said: 'I'm tired of this town and I'm sure
This town is tired of me.' She bought
A one way ticket with a newborn and a suitcase
But her side. There ain't nothing like it:
The Kansas City Mainline moving down the track
Oh Grace is gone.
Gracie found a job, typing for important businessmen
But sometimes all she could do was stare
Out of the windows at the wildflowers.
Gracie cries at night, she looks upon the stars out
In the sky. She sings to herself softly, sitting
In a bathrobe on her windowsill.
Ah grace is gone.
Gracie had a baby, she grew up, she was only seventeen
Something like a stranger and no one can recall the way
You can't fool me, I saw you when you came out
You got your momma's taste but you got my mouth
And you will always have a part of me
Nobody else is ever going to see
Gracie girl
With your cards to your chest walking on your toes
What you got in the box only Gracie knows
And I would never try to make you be
Anything you didn't really want to be
Gracie girl
Life flies by in seconds
You're not a baby Gracie, you're my friend
You'll be a lady soon but until then
You gotta do what I say
You nodded off in my arms watching TV
I won't move you an inch even thought my arm's asleep
One day you're gonna want to go
I hope we taught you everything you need to know
Gracie girl
And there will always be a part of me
Nobody else is ever gonna see but you and me
My little girl
Hello Gracie you're a good little girl
it's a beautiful world oh when you're out in it
Last time I saw you playing in the yard
You were running with children and the old people were smiling
Do you miss me would you know me at all?
If you walked by my house would you smile and turn the corner?
Blow your kisses oh make it feel worse
you know you gotta make the best of the time got has given you
I scratch your name into a wall on the beach with my keys on the side of the pier
I used to sleep so I would dream I was lying with you mid-summer
in the grass in the fields
Nobody was right Nobody was wrong, but somebody had to go
Nobody is here so nobody is gone, hello, goodbye, hello
hello, hello, hello
I scratch your name in my arm with my keys on the beach on the side of the pier
I keep your picture in a frame on the wall of my place
down the block far enough away it's like I'm not here
You're in my heart and you're in my soul, so I have to let you go
You're in my heart and you're in my soul, but I gotta let you go
Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello I gotta let you go
Hello, Hello, Hello I gotta let you go
I gotta let you go, goodbye, goodbye
I gotta let you go, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
Little Gracie is a model
Always outside of the bottle
I wanna take her to the levee
This emptiness is killing me
My allegiance with the species
Always gives me the heebie-jeebies
I'm living a lie, the river has dried,
But the stream still flows in my mind
She's the one who gets away
Tries to tell what's safe from sound
I'm in love by myself,
With my leg stuck in the ground,
And it's cold
Gracie dreams of open spaces
Wouldn't mind a few new faces
I wanna kiss but she's so heavy
This emptiness is killing me
She's the one who gets away
Tries to tell what's safe from sound
I'm in love by myself,
With my leg stuck in the ground,
And it's cold
Come on baby!
She's the one who gets away
Tries to tell what's safe from sound
I'm in love by myself,
With my leg stuck in the ground,
Gracie, Gracie
You´re just as drunk as me
Gracie, Gracie
We´re heading for the deep blue sea
I´ve never possessed any weapons
Except for lack of disciplin
By the time the bottle gets me
The demon´s already moved right in
Gracie, Gracie
You´re just as drunk as me
Gracie, Gracie
We´re heading for the deep blue sea
I´m tired of feeling nauseous
I´ll never get drunk no more
By the time the daylight gets me
I´m sleepin´ by your door
Gracie, Gracie
You´re just as drunk as me
Gracie, Gracie
We´re heading for the deep blue sea
I´ll live my life in some ballroom
That´s where I´ll learn to think
Less than I´ll remember
I pawn my Gracie´s diamond ring
Oh, Gracie, Gracie
You´re just as drunk as me
Gracie, Gracie
We´re heading for the deep blue sea
Gracie, Gracie
You´re just as drunk as me
Gracie, Gracie