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Whip It

Be Your Own Hero

Beauty competitions have become really tough!

A young woman is being pressured by mom to enter and win beauty contests. She only does it to please her mom. Then she accidentally discovers roller-skate hockey in a nearby town, and decides to try it out. She falls in love with the rough and tumble, leading to a double life where she does contests for mom, and roller derby for herself. However the charade can not continue forever, and sooner or later she is going to have to make a choice ...

109 minutes, Mature Accompaniment under 13 (Language)
Comedy, Drama, Female interest.

Credits

Cast

Ellen Page, Marcia Gay Harden, Daniel Stern, Kristen Wiig, Alia Shawkat, Landon Pigg, Juliette Lewis

Director

Drew Barrymore

Screenplay

Shauna Cross, from her novel.

Music

The Section Quartet

Cinematography

Robert D. Yeoman

Editing

Dylan Tichenor

Sound formats

Dolby

Soundtrack

Available

Made in

2009

Produced by

Vincent Pictures, Babe Ruthless Productions, Barry Mendel Productions, Flower Films, Mandate Pictures, Rye Road Productions

SA Distributor

Nu Metro

FPB Report (SA)
Genre	Comedy, drama
Language	Mild to moderate, fairly frequent, in context
Nudity	None
Sex	None. Mild sexual innuendoes and sex references.
Violence	Mild to moderate sporting violence, mild infrequent physical violence.
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy	Mild infrequent profanities.
Drug abuse	Some alcohol abuse, brief cigarette smoking, in context, does not promote, glamourise or condone.
Comments	None
These details are supplied by the FPB. If you have a problem with any of the above, please take it up directly with the FPB. Read the Classification Guidelines.

ScreenIt Report (USA)

Sex / Nudity

Violence

Blood / Gore / Gross

Guns /
Weapons

Profanity

Alcohol / Drugs

Smoking

Disrespectful /
Bad Attitude

Imitative Behaviour

Frightening /
Tense Scenes

Jump Scenes

Tense Family Scenes

Music (Scary/Tense)

Music (Inappropriate)

Topics to talk about

Ratings

Scale (Max)

International Media

Box Office (USA)Pete Hammond In this realistic but highly entertaining story that travels to two extremes of the female experience, Barrymore has made a highly promising debut behind the camera and created a first-rate, funny, heart-filled and totally winning entertainment that not only rolls, it rocks.

Chicago Sunday TimesRoger Ebert Whip It is an unreasonably entertaining movie, causing you perhaps to revise your notions about women's Roller Derby, assuming you have any.

eye Weekly (Canada)Chandler Levack Whip It's good.

Rolling Stone (US)Peter Travers

ScreenIt (USA)C. Fuchs In the end, Whip It comes off as a cute and entertaining diversion that's nothing spectacular, yet proves to be a solid, endearing and occasionally touching directorial debut.

Metacritic.com31 critics

RottenTomatoes.com142 critics

RottenTomatoes.comTomatometer While made from overly familiar ingredients, Drew Barrymore's directorial debut has enough charm, energy, and good-natured humor to transcend its many cliches.

Internet (IMDB)2557 Netizens Great flick - Go see Whip It when it comes out!

Average .. 73%

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