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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.
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.
Pages in category "Roller derby films" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. ... Roller Derby Girl; Roller Life; Rollerball (1975 film ...
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 L.A. skaters including Ace Johnson (Patrick Swayze) compete in a contest for prize money. Roller Boogie: 1979 Romance
According to review aggregator Metacritic, Rollerdrome released "generally favorable reviews" upon release. [14] [15]GameSpot enjoyed the way the game incorporated skating gameplay with traditional third-person shooter mechanics, remarking "it never feels like the tricks are an impediment to the shooting; instead, they're the secret ingredient that helps Rollerdrome stand apart from other ...
4/5 There are ‘Heathers’ parallels to filmmaker Emma Seligman’s casually subversive high school movie, starring buzzy up-and-comers Rachel Sennott (of ‘Bodies Bodies Bodies’) and Ayo ...
When two high school misfits and BFFs, Jodi (Justice) and Mindy (Sher), get pranked by the school's mean girls, they decide to fight back by spearheading an outcast uprising, with the help of ...
Audiences who saw the film so loved the action of the game that Jewison was contacted multiple times by promoters, requesting that the "rights to the game" be sold so that real Rollerball leagues might be formed. Jewison was outraged, as the entire point of the movie was to show the "sickness and insanity of contact sports and their allure." [14]