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Pages in category "Roller derby films" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Blood on the Flat ...
Roller derby films (14 P) Pages in category "Roller skating films" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. This list may not reflect recent ...
Whip It is a 2009 American sports comedy drama film co-produced and directed by Drew Barrymore from a screenplay by Shauna Cross, based on her 2007 novel Derby Girl.It stars Elliot Page [a] as a teenage girl from the fictional town of Bodeen, Texas, who joins a roller derby team.
Derby: 1971 Documentary An inside look at professionals like Charlie O'Connell and Ann Calvello. Kansas City Bomber: 1972 Drama Roller derby story starring Raquel Welch that ends in a one-on-one race versus her nemesis. Unholy Rollers: 1972 Drama A girl quits her job in a cannery to become a roller derby skater. Skatetown, U.S.A. 1979 Drama
The film is an inside look at the world of Roller Games, then a popular league sport-entertainment, a more theatrical version of roller derby.. The story focuses on K.C. Carr, who has just left her former team in Kansas City, Missouri, to start her life as a single mother over again in Portland, Oregon, with a team called the Portland Loggers.
The film was made to cash in on publicity from MGM's roller derby film, Kansas City Bomber. Roger Corman agreed to produce the film for AIP, even though he had established his own studio, New World Pictures. This was one of the last times Corman collaborated with AIP. There were several other competing roller derby films announced in early 1972.
Roller Boogie is a 1979 American teen musical exploitation film [3] about roller disco, directed by Mark L. Lester and starring Linda Blair, Jim Bray, Beverly Garland, Roger Perry, Mark Goddard, Jimmy Van Patten, and Kimberly Beck.
Roller derby is a roller skating contact sport played on an oval track by two teams of five skaters. It is played by approximately 1,250 amateur leagues [note 1] worldwide, though it is most popular in the United States. [2] A 60-minute roller derby game, or bout, is a series of two-minute timed jams.