The film takes place in a single day and night, beginning as the two main characters, Harry and Julie, meet and are immediately attracted to each other. They make a date for later in the evening, but fail to meet due to a quirk of fate. While they are apart, Harry receives a wrong-number phone call and is told that, unbeknowst to everyone else, nuclear war is about to break out in several hours. He searches frantically for Julie, helped and hindered by various strangers who have learned about the city's possibly impending doom.
Though "Miracle'' touches vaguely on the personalities and problems of individual players, particularly goalie Jim Craig (Eddie Cahill) and the loss of his mother, the film focuses mainly on Brooks' effort to turn 20 college hotshots into a team.
The movie shows the grueling, repetitive conditioning sessions -- the skating back and forth between two lines, for hours on end -- and the first early exhibition games, as the team struggles to find its footing.
What slowly pervades the movie is precisely what pervaded the United States at the time, a sense of America in decline and of the Soviet Union in the ascendant.
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