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In this week’s Whip It,](Whip It (2009) - Movie | Moviefone) director-star Drew Barrymore shines a loving light on one of the most brutal and devilishly entertaining sports around: roller derby. If you’ve ever seen a derby match, you know what I’m talking about: 60 minutes of fast-skating, bruising action between players with names like Axles of Evil and Juana Beat’n. In celebration of the badass beauties of the roller derby world and their Whip It counterparts - including Ellen Page as “Babe Ruthless,” Kristin Wiig as “Maggie Mayhem,” Barrymore as “Smashley Simpson,” and Zoe Bell as “Bloody Holly” - here’s a Cinematical Seven remembering some of the scariest, fiercest movie characters to ever lace up a pair of roller skates.
- **Rollergirl **- Boogie Nights](Boogie Nights (1997) - Movie | Moviefone) *
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In Paul Thomas Anderson’s Boogie Nights, Rollergirl (Heather Graham) is a fixture in Jack Horner’s porn family who’s up for anything but never, ever takes off those skates. She’s young, blonde, and always ready like Freddie for some fun - but don’t cross Rollergirl, or you might get a face full of wheels in return. When one unlucky frat boy insults her - and her fine feature films - he gets a sidewalk beating from Jack (Burt Reynolds) before Rollergirl glides over to give him the business end of her silver '70s four-wheelers.
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