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
- 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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