Summary Whip It (2009)
In Bodeen, Texas, an indie-rock loving misfit finds a way of dealing with small-town misery after discovering a roller derby league in nearby Austin.
In a town near Austin, Bliss Cavendar's strong-willed mom believes Bliss, at 17, can win pageants - the key to a happy life. Bliss isn't the beauty pageant type: she's shy, 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 a 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 a 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?
In Bodeen, Texas, a teenage girl named Bliss Cavendar is sick of her mother, Brooke, forcing her to compete in beauty pageants. While shopping, Bliss joins the world of roller derby. She lies about her age and joins the team. Through the time, she falls in love, betrays her best friend, and gets betrayed herself. Then her mother finds out about the roller derby...
Bliss Cavender, a seventeen year old girl living in the town of Bodeen, Texas, is sick of her mother's obsession with her competing in beauty pageants. When shopping in Austin for new shoes, Bliss picks up a leaflet for an all girls roller derby team and decides to try it out. She finds herself a natural and makes the team. With the help of her best friend Pash, can she navigate love, friendship, and lies - all without her parents finding out?
Cute, intelligent, and free-spirited, the 17-year-old small-town Texas teen, Bliss Cavendar, is being prepared to win smothering Mom's precious Miss Bluebonnet beauty pageant. However, an intriguing flier for an electrifying all-girl Roller Derby in Austin will get Bliss hooked--and as the brave rebel works on her excuses to lead a double life--an exciting and profound transformation will take place. But, eventually, as this new full-contact hobby finally catches up with Bliss and two worlds collide, a difficult decision must be made. Are this power skater's track days over?
Living in small town Bodeen Texas, seventeen year old Bliss Cavendar, who works part-time at the Oink Joint diner with her best friend Pash while they finish school, is always in quiet rebellion against her mother, Brooke Cavendar, a former beauty queen about her making the unilateral decision to enter both Bliss and Bliss' adolescent sister Shania in beauty pageants. Brooke, a postal worker, is exactly as she wishes her mother was, in wanting her to have taken control of her pageant life as a stepping stone to bigger and better things in life. Conversely, Bliss sees beauty pageants as an outdated expression of female empowerment. Bliss knows she will not get any support from her father, Earl Cavendar, in her battles against her mother, as Brooke wears the proverbial pants in the family. Bliss stumbles onto the world of the five team Texas Roller Derby League based in Austin, she intrigued upon first seeing the league's flyer. Despite knowing nothing about roller derby, Bliss is encouraged to try-out by the captain of the Hurl Scouts, Maggie Mayhem. Finding that she's found something of passion for her life, Bliss trains and tries-out, she making the team displaying natural skating speed most suited to the position of jammer. As she doesn't have the natural aggression to check, she decides to don the stage name Babe Ruthless. The Hurl Scouts, who become Bliss' second family, see the sport solely as fun, and never really listening to their coach Razor, they have perpetually finished last in the league, never winning a bout. Regardless, Bliss catches the eye of Iron Maven, the star jammer of the undefeated Holy Rollers, she seeing in Bliss a potential threat to her star jammer status. Bliss decides to hide her roller derby life from her family while she tries to balance this new passion against respecting the fact that her parents are her parents who are only looking out for her best interest. That new life includes a relationship with a musician named Oliver, whose rock band often attends roller events.