News Source: Denver Post
| about 1 month ago
Bliss and younger sister Shania are pageant contestants in a state — Texas — that loves its pageants. Bliss' mom, Brooke (Marcia Gay Harden), has her oldest daughter's goal set when the movie opens: Win the Miss Bluebonnet crown. When Bliss...
News Source: Salon
| about 1 month ago
Bliss divides her time between school and her part-time waitressing job at a greasy spoon known as the Oink Joint. But one day, with her best friend Pash (Alia Shawkat) in tow, she sneaks off to Austin -- a place where cool things are definitely...
News Source: Miami Herald
| about 1 month ago
The kind of movie that makes the term ``formulaic crowd-pleaser'' seem like a good thing, Whip It is completely predictable from the first frame...Drew Barrymore's smashing directorial debut harkens back to an era in which Hollywood studio pictures...
News Source: Androscoggin News
| about 1 month ago
Watching the Roller Derby movie "Whip It" is like spending roughly two hours with a frisky group of girls in a female empowerment camp. In the young-adult source book of the same name, the heroine, Bliss Cavendar, says in her first-person narration...