Whip it
(DVD)
Published
20th Century Fox, c2009.
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1 videodisc (120 mins.) : sd. col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Lamar Public Library (C426) - DVD | DVD WHIP IT | On Shelf |
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Published
20th Century Fox, c2009.
Format
DVD
Language
English
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Participants/Performers
Starring Drew Barrymore, Marcia Gay Harden, Juliette Lewis, and Daniel Stern.
Description
Drew Barrymore makes her bow as a director with this Roller Derby coming-of-age number, which shares the spirit of so many of Barrymore's movies: it's loosey-goosey, cheerful, and buoyant in waving its "Girls Rule!" flag. On screen, Barrymore relegates herself to a slapstick supporting role, handing the lead to Juno gal Ellen Page. Page plays a Texas teen with a yen to join Austin's Roller Derby squad, complete with new professional moniker Babe Ruthless, but she'll have to keep the side career secret from her beauty-pageant-obsessed Mom (Marcia Gay Harden) and football-watchin' Dad (Daniel Stern). A coming-of-age tale emerges between bouts of skating on the RD track (Jimmy Fallon plays the goofy Derby announcer), with a dash of romance added in the form of a generic Dude in a Band. Kristen Wiig does surrogate-mom duty as a teammate, Juliette Lewis is appropriately out-there as a track rival, and Andrew Wilson (bro of Owen and Luke) gets some hilariously poker-faced lines in as the team's coach. All the pleasant stuff makes you almost overlook how ramshackle the movie is, and how standard-issue the parental tensions (even if Harden is a total pro, as always). Ellen Page doesn't offer the innate audience-friendly cuddliness of Barrymore herself--thus her apt casting as Juno's brittle heroine--but her rapt focus is something to behold. "Babe Ruthless" indeed.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
(2009). Whip it . 20th Century Fox.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)2009. Whip It. 20th Century Fox.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Whip It 20th Century Fox, 2009.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Whip It 20th Century Fox, 2009.
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