In this Wikipedia new world of mis-information and junk mail facts, it's important to differentiate fact from fiction. This movie is truly belongs to the latter.
Elisabeth Shue did not challenge to become the first girl on her high school varsity soccer team, as you report in your review. Here are the facts:
1. Elisabeth Shue played on a boys soccer team from the age of 9 to 13. At that pre-puberty age - boys and girls can certainly compete together, and often equally, in athletics.
2. Title IX was signed into law by President Ford on May 27, 1975 and high schools had to comply with the law within 3 years, so Ms. Shue would have been allowed to try out and play on the boys team in 1978 if there was no girls team at her school. However, she never did.
3. Elisabeth Shue is 5'2" tall - the idea that she could compete and star on a high school boys varsity soccer team is quite a stretch. She actually made her school's girls gymnastics team. At 5'2" she was most likely the tallest on the team.
4. Her brother, William Shue, did not die in a car accident in high school creating the impetus for 15 year old Elisabeth to covet his position on the boys soccer team. William died in 1988, a few days before his 27th birthday, while on a family vacation. A rope broke on a tire swing and he was thrown into a tree branch, impaling him while his siblings watched in horror. Elisabeth Shue was 24 years old and had already established herself as a film actress.
These facts were taken from a GQ interview with Elizbeth Shue in October 1996. In that interview she said "...I so wanted to fit in with my brothers, and I was always playing with the boys, and I probably seemed real comfortable. I was a really great athlete; I was included because I was good enough and they needed me on the team. But at a certain point, everybody got older, and the boys were all better athletes than me. And my whole self-worth had been based on the notion that I understood men and was strong and tough and could beat anybody up. It never occurred to me that a time would come when I wasn't as physically strong as my brothers . . ." That certain point was probably at age 13 when she could no longer compete with the boys. So, she was never an activist as mentioned in your review.
It's important for people like yourself to keep the facts straight - a movie is not like some junk email that can be easily dismissed as containing suspect information. Movies are a medium that reaches millions and It's permanent. Terms like "based on" or "inspired by actual events" give it more credence than it actually deserves. It's fiction and isn't all fiction created from life experiences or knowledge of the author?
My son played little league and high school baseball but quit because of an incompetent high school coach. Also, his 4 year old cousin was killed in a car accident. I could, therefore, make a movie "based on actual events" that he changed schools and became the star on a rival school's varsity team - inspired by the death of his little cousin - let's say she was murdered by a pedophile - who idolized him as an athlete. He goes on to win the state championship by pitching a perfect game and hitting a home run in the bottom of the ninth inning for a 1-0 win. A true story - right?
So, tell it like it is - it's not Elisabeth Shue's story - it's fiction starring Ms. Shue and made jointly with other members of her family.
Excerpts from an October 1996 GQ interview with Elizabeth Shue, supporting the information above, can be found at http://www.eonline.com/celebrities/profile/?uuid=5cd6b0c5-22c6-4612-b987-43ea2710151b | 
