Whip It Be Your Own Hero • Bliss Cavendar lives in small-town Texas and yearns to break free of her mother's (Marcia Gay Harden) world of beauty pageants and conformity. She sees her chance when she meets the Hurl Scouts, a roller-derby team; she tries out for the team and wins a slot, lying to her parents about her new hobby. Bliss finds friendship and freedom with her teammates, but a conflict between a championship game and the Bluebonnet beauty pageant threatens to spill her secret. a tiff '09 official selection. • Ellen Page leads; co-starring Marcia Gay Harden, Kristen Wiig, Drew Barrymore [who made her directorial debut], Juliette Lewis, Jimmy Fallon, and Daniel Stern. Screenplay by Shauna Cross; Based on her own 2007 Holt novel "Whip It". Produced by Barry Mendel and Barrymore • Executive Producers: Peter Douglas, Nancy Juvonen, Kristen Smith, Nathan Kahane, Joe Drake and Chris Miller. Music by The Section Quartet • Music Supervisor: Randall Poster; Soundtrack available on Rhino. a Vincent Pictures/Flower Films/Rye Road production for Fox Searchlight Pictures, with Mandate Pictures; made in association with Dune Entertainment. Filmed around Detroit, MI from July - September 2008 with ARRIflex and PanaVision®'s Panaflex cameras and lenses. General: 10/2/09 Approved [No. 45370]/rated PG-13 for sexual content, including crude dialogue; language; and drug material.