Whip It Page #2

Synopsis: In a town near Austin, Bliss Cavendar's strong-willed mom believes Bliss, at 17, can win pageants - the key to a happy life. Bliss isn't the beauty pageant type: she's shy, quiet, and has just one friend, Pash, her fellow waitress at a diner. Things change for Bliss when she discovers a women's roller derby league in Austin, tries out, proves to be whip fast, and makes a team. Now she needs to become someone tough on the rink, keep her parents from finding out where she goes twice a week, and do something about a first crush, on a musician she meets at the derby. Meanwhile, mom still sees Bliss as Miss Bluebonnet. Things are on a collision course; will everyone get banged up?
Genre: Drama, Sport
Director(s): Drew Barrymore
Production: Fox Searchlight Pictures
  8 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.9
Metacritic:
68
Rotten Tomatoes:
84%
PG-13
Year:
2009
111 min
$13,000,000
Website
1,993 Views


Give me that. Okay?

Earl, do you know how hard I have worked

to raise these girls in

a drug-free environment?

Yes, I do. Exactly.

(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)

Hi. Hey, girls. What's up?

Hello. Dropping my flyers off.

Perfect. Hurl Scouts-Holy Rollers.

(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)

See you then. Thanks, girls. Bye.

Come on. All right, let's go. Come on.

BLISS:
Screw you and your

grandma's Chevy Celebrity.

(CHUCKLES)

Here.

No, what are you doing? Yes,

yes, yes. You got stiffed

on your tips again, just take it. No.

Just take it. take it. No.

What is this? What is this?

Roller derby?

This is... This is tomorrow.

This is in Austin.

Yeah, I know.

Will there be cute boys there?

(BOTH CHATTERING)

Hey, Mom, Dad, we're gonna

go to a football game.

It's an away game, but...

The team kind of needs us.

No, no, no, not "kind of," they do.

EARL:
Well, sure.

Hey, I'll tell you what, I'll take you.

No, it's cool. You have your car.

Yeah, I have my car.

No, but I mean, you know,

we can watch together.

Earl, let the girls go

on and have their fun.

And then you and I can nuzzle.

(BOTH GASPING)

I kind of feel bad lying to them.

I don't. I give my parents straight A's.

l get freedom.

(SCREAMING)

(SHEENA IS A RUNK

ROOKER PLAYING ON RADIO)

(SINGING) She's a punk

punk, a punk rocker

Punk punk, a punk rocker

(SCREAMING)

Well, the kids are all

hopped up and ready to go

They're ready to go now

They've got their surfboards

And they're going to

the discotheque a-go-go

But she just couldn't stay

She had to break away

Well, New York City really has it all

Oh, yeah

Don't say I never gave you anything.

Sheena is a punk rocker

(CROWD CHEERING)

Okay, everybody, and welcome

to skate night at the Warehouse.

I'm a little hung-over tonight, so l...

Anyway, let me introduce

you to our first team.

Ooming to you from

the streets of Austin,

men, hold on to your

cookies, it's the Hurl Scouts.

Number 99, captain of the

Hurl Scouts, Maggie Mayhem.

Number 69, Bloody Holly.

Number 3, Rosa Sparks.

Number 2, Smashley Simpson.

Razor Magee's Hurl Scouts have come

in last place three years running.

This league has five teams,

each with their own theme.

What outlaw do we have

skating against the Hurl Scouts

this fine Texas evening here?

I'm talking about the girls so bad

that even God can't keep them in line.

Give it up for the

undefeated Holy Rollers.

Last season's champs

are led by their captain,

the league's leading scorer. Iron Maven.

Yeah, she's the one from the flyer.

I'm feeling hot in these

polyesters right now, baby.

Ladies and gentlemen,

let's play some roller derby.

(BLOWING WHISTLE)

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Shauna Cross

Shauna Cross is an American screenwriter, novelist and former roller derby athlete. She skated for the Los Angeles Derby Dolls under the pseudonym "Maggie Mayhem", and subsequently wrote the 2007 novel Derby Girl, a fictionalized version of her experiences in the TXRD Lonestar Rollergirls league. In 2009, she wrote a film adaption of the novel, Whip It, which was directed by Drew Barrymore and released in 2009. She was named one of Variety's 10 Screenwriters to Watch in 2008. more…

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