The Simone Biles Story: Courage to Soar (TV Movie 2018)

The Simone Biles Story: Courage to Soar: Directed by Vanessa Parise. With Simon Akenhead, Tim Beckmann, Raven Bowens, Kai Bradbury. The America gymnast Simone Biles’ road to success including all the trials and tribulations that she faced.

“As docu-dramas go, not bad. It is very hard to find u0026#39;region 2u0026#39; DVDs of any US athletic championu0026#39;s biopic, even to stream.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI barely knew anything about Simone Biles (Iu0026#39;ve since seen the Gabby Douglas story and was impressed by both films). I was interested to see how a bonafide mega-champion came to be. The story is well told with lots of impressive gymnastics. You have to admire her, her parents and her coach. The practical challenges, discouragements and whole psychological journey are as interesting as the physical development. And I liked how the gradual improvement was so well shown: The final scenes showing Ms Bilesu0026#39; olympic performances surprise, as a spectacular step-up from all that went before; delightful. The journey though all the build up this film offers, earns the viewer a much deeper understanding of what those final amazing feats really took to achieve. Iu0026#39;ve not been in such awe since Nadia Comaneci (and she had less height and complexity in her moves)”