Whip it

Bliss Cavendar is a small-town Texan teenager made to compete in corny beauty pageants by her mom. While visiting nearby Austin, she crashes into a rocking underground scene that provides the rough-and-tumble means to distinguish herself from her loving parents. Drew Barrymore teams up with Ellen Page for her debut as a director in this funky drama comedy set in the arena of short skirts, body checking and high-speed roller-skating known as roller derby. Shauna Cross (adapting her own novel) provides refreshing space for her female characters to behave outside the norm for women in cinema. This is glaringly apparent from the amount of violence the lovable roller-skaters wreak upon one another to the gross-out humor usually permitted only for boys on the silver screen.Barrymore has assembled a superb alt-film line up for this feature with an energetic femme-centered ensemble (with herself as the riotous, crash prone Smashley Simpson), director of photography Robert Yeoman (THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS) and Randall Poster (I'M NOT THERE) as music supervisor among others.

Cast
Ellen PAGE, Marcia Gay HARDEN, Drew BARRYMORE, Kristen WIIG, Juliette LEWIS, Jimmy FALLON: Producer
Barry Mendel: Script
Shauna Crossv: Cinematography
Robert D. Yeoman: Music
The Section Quartet: Spoken language
English