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 ...
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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
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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 / Profanity Alcohol / Drugs Smoking Disrespectful / Imitative Behaviour Frightening / Jump Scenes Tense Family Scenes Music (Scary/Tense) Music (Inappropriate) Topics to talk about
Ratings Scale (Max) 20
South African Media Cape Argus/The Star Theresa Smith 10
Cape Times Betsy Sharkey 15
International Media Box Office (USA) Pete Hammond 15
Chicago Sunday Times Roger Ebert 18
eye Weekly (Canada) Chandler Levack 15
Rolling Stone (US) Peter Travers 13
ScreenIt (USA) C. Fuchs 12
Metacritic.com 31 critics 13
RottenTomatoes.com 142 critics 14
RottenTomatoes.com Tomatometer 16
Internet (IMDB) 2557 Netizens 15
Average .. 71% 14
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