22 September 2009 | 26 views | No Comment  Print |  Email

Apparently, I’ll watch anything! Before you tell me that a movie reviewer can’t be discriminating, let me just say that you’re wrong, but what does it matter since I’ll watch anything! That includes Whip It, which is apparently Drew Barrymore’s directorial debut. I get to drive out to Fox studios on Wednesday after work. Fun! You’d think I’d move out to LA already, considering how much I drive out there, but what can I do? I can’t afford to live in the city in the apartments I’d want and it’s not worth it to me to downgrade, but pay the same amount of money. I find it much cheaper to complain about traffic.

Here’s the official synopsis:

For years, Bliss Cavendar (Academy Award® nominee Ellen Page) has been dreaming of escaping her tiny, truck-stop of a town Bodeen, Texas.  Unfortunately her devoted, beauty pageant obsessed mother (Academy Award® winner Marcia Gay Harden) is convinced that Bliss can only succeed in life if she wins the crown at the local Miss Blue Bonnet Pageant, but the awkward outsider knows there’s something bigger and better out there.  When Bliss sneaks off to the big city of Austin with her best friend Pash (Alia Shawkat) she discovers a world unlike anything she could ever imagine:  roller derby, with its girl-power-meets-punk-rock spirit and its liberating celebration of wild individuality.

Inspired by the likes of Maggie Mayhem (Kristen Wiig), Bliss secretly tries out for a spot on the Hurl Scouts, a rag-tag team of scrappy underdogs.  Soon she’s trading in her gowns and crowns for skirts, skates and scrapes becoming her alter ego, Babe Ruthless.  Leading a precarious double life, Bliss may be a waitress at Bodeen’s Oink Joint by day, but by night, she’s becoming the fastest thing on eight wheels.  Now she’s doing things she never dreamed of — fearlessly facing off with bad-ass rivals like Iron Maven (Academy Award® nominee Juliette Lewis) and falling for a boy in a band (singer/songwriter Landon Pigg) — while trying to be a heroine to her new friends and teammates.  But when her secret gets out, Bliss will face her toughest fight yet:  to take control of the future . . . on her own terms.

Rounding out a dynamic ensemble cast,  also stars Jimmy Fallon, Eve, Zoë Bell, Ari Graynor, Eulala Scheel, Andrew Wilson, Carlo Alban and Daniel Stern.  The film marks the feature film directorial debut of Drew Barrymore, who also stars as the feisty Hurl Scout, Smashley Simpson. The film is produced by two-time Academy Award^®-nominee Barry Mendel along with Barrymore from a screenplay by Shauna Cross, author of the semi-autobiographical novel from which WHIP IT is adapted.  The film is executive produced by Peter Douglas, Nancy Juvonen, Kirsten “Kiwi” Smith, Nathan Kahane, Joe Drake and Chris Miller.  Nicole Brown, Kelli Konop, Jason Lust and Karyn McCarthy serve as co-producers.

Whip It opens on October 2, 2009. Look for my review soon.