Today’s movie is a teen drama with a scene that happens on
August 24. Watch it tonight and enjoy.
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Bliss Cavender is a 17 year old
living in Bodine, Texas. Her mother enters her in beauty pageants, but Bliss
hates them. Bliss works in the Oink Joint, a local BBQ restaurant as a waitress
with her best friend Pash. On day while shopping in Austin, Bliss sees a flyer
for a local roller derby match. On August 24, 2008 [9:56 to 10:45] Pash picks
up Bliss at the Oink Joint and they decide to attend after lying to their
parents about where they’re going. After seeing the match Bliss lies to the
team and says she’s 22, and to her
parents about what she’s doing, so she can try out for the Hurl Scouts, the
perennial doormat of the roller derby league. Bliss makes the team and is soon
nicknamed ‘Babe Ruthless’. At a party after the first match she meets Oliver,
an aspiring musician and they later take a day long road trip. Her mother
pushes Bliss to get ready for the Miss Bluebonnet pageant. The team starts to
win, and make the finals, in part due to Bliss, who becomes so good she is
selected as the league’s new poster girl. Of course the league finals and the
pageant are scheduled for the same day. After a match the police raid the
event, resulting in Pash being arrested for underage drinking. Bliss is unaware
of this as she has gone off with Oliver for a romantic midnight swim before he
leaves on tour with his band, taking Bliss’s favorite t-shirt as a memento. Her
parent’s find out what Bliss has been up to as a result of Pash’s arrest,
leading to Bliss moving in with a fellow teammate, ‘Maggie’ Mayhem” and having
a falling out with Pash. Bliss finally
confesses to the team that she’s only 17 and thus can’t skate unless one of her
parents gives permission. Bliss finds an online photo of Oliver standing with a
girl who is wearing the t-shirt Bliss
gave him. She is devastated, moves back home and decides to compete in the Miss
Bluebonnet pageant. Bliss and Pash make up after Pash gets accepted to an Ivy
league school in spite of her arrest. Her father investigates roller derby and
gives Bliss permission to skate. Bliss skates in the finals, but the Hurl
Scouts suffer a heart-breaking last second loss. Oliver returns, but Bliss
breaks up with him, not believing his vow that he didn’t cheat on her. At the end of the film Bliss has even reconciled
with her mother after her mom learns Bliss planned to name her the person Bliss
was most proud of in the pageant.
A quirky coming-of-age story.
Very refreshing that this is a girl’s story, but it is still somewhat clichéd.
Of course the finals and the pageant are on the same day! Oh well, this movie’s
unusual storyline and believable characters make it worth watching.
The flyer gives the date of Aug 25 at 9:56. At 10:35,
looking at the flyer Pash says “that’s tomorrow”
Director - Drew Barrymore
Runtime – 1 hour 51 minutes
Released – September 13, 2009
Starring –
Ellen Page as Bliss Cavendar (Babe Ruthless)
Alia Shawkat as Pash
Marcia Gay Harden as Brooke Cavendar
Daniel Stern as Earl Cavendar
Landon Pigg as Oliver
Jimmy Fallon as 'Hot Tub' Johnny Rocket
Kristen Wiig as Maggie Mayhem
Eve as Rosa Sparks
Drew Barrymore as Smashley Simpson
Copyright by Ivan Walters in 2014
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