Whip It

4.00
    Whip It
    2009

    Synopsis

    In Bodeen, Texas, Land Of The Dragon, an indie-rock loving misfit finds a way of dealing with her small-town misery after she discovers a roller derby league in nearby Austin.

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    Cast

    • Elliot PageBliss Cavendar
    • Alia ShawkatPash
    • Marcia Gay HardenBrooke Cavendar
    • Kristen WiigMaggie Mayhem
    • Drew BarrymoreSmashley Simpson
    • Landon PiggOliver
    • Juliette LewisIron Maven
    • Zoë BellBloody Holly
    • Daniel SternEarl Cavendar
    • Eve Jihan Jeffers CooperRosa Sparks

    Recommendations

    • 88

      Chicago Sun-Times

      An unreasonably entertaining movie, causing you perhaps to revise your notions about women's Roller Derby, assuming you have any.
    • 80

      The Hollywood Reporter

      Clicks on so many levels -- heartwarming family story, rough-and-tumble display of grrrl power and a secondary but tender and convincing romance.
    • 80

      Variety

      Laced with good-natured hipster kitsch and endearingly goofy girl power, director Drew Barrymore's roller-derby dramedy, Whip It, is a gas.
    • 80

      Time Out

      Marcia Gay Harden is the picture’s treasure; watching her swell with concern at her daughter’s choices, you understand how hard it is to let go.
    • 78

      Austin Chronicle

      Barrymore’s casting choices are intrinsic to the success of the film. Lewis, under her rink name, Iron Maven, hasn’t had this meaty a role in maybe 15 years, while Wilson as the team’s shaggy male coach is a hoot to watch. Harden and Stern, as Bliss’ parents, create fleshed-out characters instead of lazy depictions of the paper tigers that grown-ups usually are in teens’ stories.
    • 75

      St. Louis Post-Dispatch

      What Barrymore brings is good-natured, girl-powered subversion, a sense of when to flaunt clichés and when to flip them over the rails.
    • 75

      Miami Herald

      Whip It is completely predictable from the first frame. It also is ridiculously, utterly entertaining.
    • 70

      New York Magazine (Vulture)

      Page is softer than in "Hard Candy" and "Juno." Without Diablo Cody comebacks, she’s even more marvelous.

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