Whip It (2009)

Cautiously Recommended

USA

Feature Film

Director: Drew Barrymore

Writers: Shauna Cross

Cinematographer: Robert Yeoman

Composers: The Section Quartet

Cast: Ellen Page, Alia Shawkat, Marcia Gay Harden, Eulala Scheel, Kristen Wiig, Drew Barrymore, Juliette Lewis, Jimmy Fallon

Bliss, a 17-year-old small-town girl, fed-up with her mother’s pageant obsession, discovers Roller Derby, a violent roller skate-based sport, and becomes an instant star, finally finding a modicum of happiness – that is, until her parents find out, in Drew Barrymore’s mildly diverting feature directorial debut, a perverse mixture of clichés and anti-clichés. Iain.Stott