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It stars Elliot Page as a teenager from the fictional town of Bodeen Texas who joins a roller derby team. Shes a 17-year-old perennial on the local beauty-pageant circuit pressured to enter by her mom a finalist some years before.

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Ellen Page leads the charge Drew Barrymore at left.

. Drew Barrymores directorial debut set in the whack em-stack em world of womens roller derby is bright bouncy and winning says critic Jeannette Catsoulis. Whip It 2009 Ellen Page et al see above Ellen Page as Bliss Cavender forced by her mother to participate in the beauty pageant circuit finds her true calling in banked track roller derby as Babe Ruthless. Brooke a faded beauty queen would like her two daughters Bliss is.

By Brian Gallagher Published Sep 30 2009. Drew Barrymore Ellen Page In Marie Claire Magazine Derby Girl Drew Barrymore Ellen Page Movie Whip Love This Itwhip It 2009 Love This Movie Girl Movies Funny Movies Whip It Movie Share this post. I have always wanted to make a movie that showcased flat track derby as the weird and wonderful thing it is.

She has a job at a barbecue. Drew Barrymore-directed roller derby film - Barrymores directorial debut. The first thing that strikes you about casting the diminutive Ellen Page in a roller-derby movie is built-in trepidation.

The film also stars Barrymore Alia Shawkat Marcia Gay Harden Da. The ultimate news source for music celebrity entertainment movies and current events on the web. Whip It is a 2009 American sports comedy-drama film directed by Drew Barrymore in her directorial debut and written by Shauna Cross based on her 2007 novel Derby Girl.

Bliss Cavendar Ellen Page is a Texas teenager whose mother Marcia Gay Harden pushes her along the beauty-pageant circuit shaking her head and. And so the Derby Dolls are calling on roller derby and movie fans to join forces Sunday for a special screening of Whip It with all proceeds going. Its signed by her.

The movie based on screenwriter Shauna Cross novel Derby Girl is set in the heart of small-town Texas where a high school senior and part-time barbeque joint waitress Bliss Cavendar Junos Ellen Page is doing her best to please her mother Brooke Marcia Gay Harden. We take in a roller derby bout with a QA with Page Barrymore Juliette. In Bodeen Texas an indie-rock-loving misfit finds a way of dealing with small-town misery after discovering a roller-derby league in nearby Austin.

Page wanted to start acting at an early age and attended the Neptune Theater School. Share Tweet Share Email. Small-town teen Bliss dodges her mothers beauty pageant plans in favor of joining a knock-em-sock-em all-girl roller derby team.

Ellen Pages Bliss Cavendar lives in Bodeen Texas. Hopefully this will be superior to the films she stars in. The film is co-produced by Barrymore and Barry Mendel.

It maybe even has some Ellen Page sweat in. Starring Ellen Page Marcia Gay Harden Kristen Wiig Juliette Lewis and Zoe Bell. Then again it could be awful.

Newer Post Older Post Home. The movie is a coming-together of two free spirits Drew Barrymore and Ellen Page and while it may not. When not being gowned and styled Bliss works as a server at the Oink Joint a roadside cafe with a jumbo concrete pig on top of it.

Zoe Chace caught up with the Mason-Dixon. It039s pop culture on steroids. The directorial debut of Drew Barrymore stars Ellen Page Juno as Bliss a rebellious Texas teen who throws in her small town beauty pageant crown for the rowdy world of roller derby.

Derby Dolls -- is auctioning off Ellen Pages helmet from Whip It. My league -- LA. Drew Barrymore Stars.

The film-makers capture both on-track footage and elucidating moments before and after bouts. Marcia Gay Harden Mystic River Pollock plays Bliss disapproving mother while Kristen Wiig Saturday Night Live and Juliette Lewis Old School play roller-derby stars. Starring Junos Ellen Page.

Drew Barrymore is the blocker and Ellen Page is the jammer. The movie follows Ellen Page as she becomes a member of an Austin Texas team the Hurl Scouts and that brought real roller derby teams out in force. Elliot Page Drew Barrymore Kristen Wiig Sarah Habel.

Darren Michaels Ellen Page stars as an amateur roller-derby queen in Drew Barrymores Whip It Whip It Movie Review -- Bliss Cavendar is going nowhere slowly. You fear she might get squashed like a. Ellen Page and Drew Barrymore Whip It.

Bliss Cavendar Page is a 17-year-old reluctant beauty pageant contestant nudged along by her Good Girl mother played by the terrific Marcia Gay Harden. Whip It is an unreasonably entertaining movie causing you perhaps to revise your notions about womens Roller Derby assuming you have any. Movie Talk - Whip It.

Mom is a former beauty queen herself who sneaks smokes to project a Perfect Mom image to her daughter and undergoes her own transformation in the film. The tag line Be your own hero accurately projects modern roller derbys DIY ethic and self-empowering stance. Justin Long was in the.

Darren Michaels Ellen Page stars as an amateur roller-derby queen in Drew Barrymores Whip It Whip It Movie Review -- Bliss Cavendar is going nowhere slowly. Whip It Whip It Movie Girl Movies Roller Derby Girls.

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