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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 as a teenage girl from the fictional town of Bodeen, Texas, who joins a roller derby team.
Oct 2, 2009 · Whip It: Directed by Drew Barrymore. With Sarah Habel, Shannon Eagen, Edward Austin Kelly, Mary Callaghan Lynch. 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.
- (70K)
- Drama, Sport
- Drew Barrymore
- 2009-10-02
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.
- 3 min
- 29.7K
- MOVIE PREDICTOR
After years of indulging the ambitious dreams of her Texas mom by competing in beauty pageants, a sixteen year old misfit secretly joins the Roller Derby and discovers self-confidence, romance ...
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...
- 2 min
- 5.1M
- SearchlightPictures
Oct 2, 2009 · Bliss Cavendar lives in small-town Texas and yearns to break free of her mother's world of beauty pageants and conformity. She sees her chance when she meets the Hurl Scouts, a roller-derby team ...
- (191)
- Comedy, Drama
- PG-13
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Sep 30, 2009 · The movie is miles more intelligent than most of the cream-of-wheat marketed to teenage girls. Funnier, more exciting, even liberating. In her debut as a director, Barrymore shows she must have been paying attention ever since Spielberg cast her when she was 5.