Whip It

Genre: Comedy

Worldwide gross$16.6M

In a town near Austin, Bliss Cavendar's strong-willed mom believes that 17-year-old Bliss can win pageants, which she considers the key to a happy life. Bliss isn't the beauty pageant type: she's shy and quiet and has just one friend:Pash, her fellow waitress at a diner. Things change for Bliss when she discovers a women's roller-derby league in Austin, tries out, proves to be whip-fast, and makes the team. Now she needs to become someone tough on the rink, keep her parents from finding out where she goes twice a week, and do something about her first crush, on a musician she meets at the derby. Meanwhile, Mom still sees Bliss as Miss Bluebonnet. Things are on a collision course; will everyone get banged up?

🏆 8 nominations total

Genres

Drama, Sport

Director

Drew Barrymore

Cast

Elliot Page, Drew Barrymore, Kristen Wiig

Released

2 October 2009

Runtime

1h 51m

Certificate

PG-13

IMDb rating

6.9 / 10

Votes

71,615

Metascore

68

Rotten Tomatoes

86%

Box office

$13,043,363

Budget

$15,000,000

Edition

Base