Based on the Shauna Cross novel 'Derby Girl,''Whip It' is about a misfit girl named Bliss (Ellen Page) is constantly being pressured to enter beauty pageants by her mother, so she joins a roller derby league instead. The film marks the directorial debut of Drew Barrymore.
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