Making her directorial debut, actress Drew Barrymore gives female roller derby movies a rejuvenation not seen since Raquel Welch “graced” the silver screen as K.C. Carr in 1972’s “Kansas City Bomber”.
“Whip It” stars Ellen Page (“Juno”) as Bliss Cavendar, an indie-rock loving misfit, a combat-boot-wearin’ square peg in the very round hole of Bodeen, Texas, where football and beauty pageants are the guiding lights, yet she finds a way of dealing with her small-town misery by discovering a roller derby league in nearby Austin.
