Today we went to a matinee and saw Eddie the Eagle, the story of the British underdog ski jumper who made it to the 1988 Calgary Olympics Winter Games.

It’s a gross understatement to say that Eddie had serious physical problems with his knees as a child and was not predisposed to become an athlete.  His dream, however, was to prove everyone wrong and to participate in the Olympic Games.  In the movie, after Eddie fails in yet another of his many adolescent endeavors to succeed in an athletic activity, his dad remarks that, “It’s only a matter of time before he walks through that door in a wheelchair.”  (????)

In spite of that non sequitur statement, it was a good movie and we enjoyed it.