Gabby Douglas wins a gold metal in my heart.

Hello everybody and welcome back to my blog! Today I'm going to be talking about a documentary I watched a few months ago. This movie is called, "The Gabby Douglas Story." If you didn't already know, Gabby Douglas is the first African American woman in Olympic history to become the individual all-around champion, and the first American gymnast to win gold in both the individual all-around and team competitions at the same Olympics as well as being the only American all-around champion to win multiple gold medals. At the time, Douglas was only 15. I'm almost 15 and the greatest thing I've done was pass Middle School. That says a lot! After all of this success, film creators wanted to make a documentary of her life. Douglas didn't grow up in great fortune. On the contrary, she grew up in poverty. Nothing was ever good for her, but somehow she kept following her dream, since she was young, to become a professional gymnast. This film follows, with actors, the childhood that Douglas had. After her mother and her father got evicted from their house because the father got laid off from his job, they had to live in a trailer for a while. The father then left the mother alone with five kids to raise. The mother moved in with her mother and tried to get back on her feet. Meanwhile, the directors show Gabby Douglas always doing flips and rolls on the front lawn or at a recreation center. As a teen, Gabby has to make big choices that will effect her life greatly that will help her reach her goal. No matter how cliche it sounds, this movie shows viewers how important it is to follow your dreams and that if you do follow your dream and work hard for it, you will succeed. I couldn't recommend this film enough. I had some doubts that it would be boring, however, I was definitely wrong. I watched this film on Netflix; no surprise there.  This movie received a four out of five stars on Rotten Tomatoes and was directed by Gregg Champion. By the way, when I first watched this movie, I started to freak out because the girl that plays Gabby Douglas, Imani Hakim, is the daughter from the show, "Everybody Hates Chris." She's all grown up now! All in all, you should seriously go watch it... now...go.