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FOX SEARCHLIGHT PICTURES Presents In Association With MANDATE PICTURES A VINCENT PICTURES/FLOWER FILMS/RYE ROAD PRODUCTION ELLEN PAGE MARCIA GAY HARDEN KRISTEN WIIG DREW BARRYMORE JULIETTE LEWIS JIMMY FALLON ALIA SHAWKAT EVE ZO? BELL ARI GRAYNOR EULALA SCHEEL ANDREW WILSON CARLO ALBAN LANDON PIGG RACHEL PIPLICA KRISTEN ADOLFI DANIEL STERN DIRECTED BY DREW BARRYMORE SCREENPLAY BY SHAUNA CROSS BASED ON THE NOVEL “WHIP IT”BY SHAUNA CROSS PRODUCED BY BARRY MENDEL DREW BARRYMORE EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS PETER DOUGLAS NANCY JUVONEN KIRSTEN “KIWI” SMITH NATHAN KAHANE JOE DRAKE CHRIS MILLER DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY ROBERT YEOMAN ASC PRODUCTION DESIGNER KEVIN KAVANAUGH EDITOR DYLAN TICHENOR ACE COSTUME DESIGNER CATHERINE MARIE THOMAS CO-PRODUCERS NICOLE BROWN KELLI KONOP JASON LUST KARYN McCARTHY MUSIC BY THE SECTION QUARTET MUSIC SUPERVISOR RANDALL POSTER CASTING BY JUSTINE BADDELEY and KIM DAVIS-WAGNER Running time 111 minutes 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