Ice Angel was released in 2000 on Fox Family. It was released on DVD in Australia as On Thin Ice: Going For The Gold. It is a variation of Here Comes Mr. Jordan, where an athlete dies before Heaven has his death scheduled, and the soul is returned in the body of another. In this particular version, the prematurely dead athlete is a male hockey player, Matt Clark (Aaron Smolinski), who was hit in the head by a hockey puck that had been accidentally deflected by an angel. The angels can't return Matt to Earth as himself because his body has already been cremated. So, he is returned in the body of female figure skater Sarah Bryann (Nicholle Tom), who recently died and who's body is still comatose in the hospital. Rather than devote a lot of time to dealing with the change in sex, this movie concentrates more on learning a different sport, assisted by Coach Parker (Alan Thicke) and other US olympic team skaters (portrayed by real world skaters Tara Lipinski and Nancy Kerrigan). All the while, Matt is warned that it is against the rules to try and contact people from one's past life, the penalty being loss of any memory of his past life.
Ice Angel provides examples of:
- Afterlife Antechamber: When Matt wakes up in what looks like a hotel or hospital: it's an intermediate stop on the way to Heaven. He eventually gets sent back because it wasn't his time to die.
- Divine Misfile: Because an angel knocked a hockey puck into Matt's head killing him, and his body was cremated before the mistake could be rectified, he gets a new (used) body .. Sarah's.
- Gender Bender: Hockey player Matt is killed and is resurrected in the body of the comatose dead body of Sarah.
- Our Angels Are Different: They're bureaucrats, shuffling people off to Heaven with as little fuss as possible.
- Reincarnated as the Opposite Sex: Matt is brought back to life in a woman's body, granted in a pre-existing woman's body.
- Training Montage: Done when Matt, now inhabiting the body of Sarah, as he learns to be a figure skater now.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Matt is upset for burning his original body before his number had been sorted out upstairs.
