The Gabby Douglas Story: Season 1

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Lifetime | Season Premiere Date: November 30, -0001

Summary: Gabby Douglas' (Imani Hakima and Sydney Mikayla) journey to become an Olympic gold medalist that included moving away from her mother (Regina King) to Iowa with her coach (Brian Tee) is the focus of this Lifetime TV movie.

Genre(s): Drama, Sports

Season 1 Episodes

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S1:E0. The Gabby Douglas Story
Air Date: February 1, 2014

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Stephan Lee

Jan 29, 2014

The movie deals lightly with the racism Douglas faced in a predominantly white sport, but mostly her road to gold is paved with after-school-movie maxims like "Don't look back, look forward." Read full review

Mark A. Perigard

Jan 31, 2014

It’s not a good fit [with Lifetime], and there’s not a lot of drama in this biopic about the first U.S. Olympic gymnast and African-American to triumph in both the all-around and the team competition. Read full review

Allison Keene

Jan 31, 2014

Though the movie is fine as a sweet, inspirational tale about determination through injury and many other stumbling blocks, nothing within it is as moving as the final montage, which is just actual footage from Douglas' incredible gold medal-winning London performance. Read full review

Bruce Miller

Jan 31, 2014

It doesn’t stir that many emotions. It doesn’t provide stunning insight into her character. It doesn’t even talk about setbacks (or her relationship with other Olympic gymnasts). Instead, The Gabby Douglas Story is a tribute to the power of positive thinking. Read full review

Sara Stewart

Jan 31, 2014

As you’d expect from this network, all the principal players have been burnished into one-dimensional characters: Gabby is driven but also fiercely devoted to her family, while her mom is noble and long-suffering and her siblings exist mostly to applaud their sister’s achievements. S. Epatha Merkerson, patron saint of TV movies, shows up as Gabby’s grandma, full of life-affirming bromides. Read full review

Brian Lowry

Jan 29, 2014

The Gabby Douglas Story is pretty much made of spit and bailing wire. And while that’s not necessarily a bad thing, it renders the otherwise stirring story of this golden girl barely worthy of a bronze. Read full review

Molly Eichel

Jan 30, 2014

It’s 90 minutes of treacly declarations and follow-your-dreams platitudes that waste the talents of both Regina King and S. Epatha Merkerson. Read full review

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Mar 8, 2014

Regina King was great as Gabby's mom and Sydney Mikayla was also great as the young Gabby, but Imani Hakim did not have the body to star in this roll. Imani's acting was fine, but she needed to have a body like a gymnast to pull it off completely. Part of preparing for the roll should haveRegina King was great as Gabby's mom and Sydney Mikayla was also great as the young Gabby, but Imani Hakim did not have the body to star in this roll. Imani's acting was fine, but she needed to have a body like a gymnast to pull it off completely. Part of preparing for the roll should have included actual training to get Imani's body in shape. The script was ok, but not great. I would have loved to see more competition scenes and the movie was way too long.… Expand

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