- Actors: Linda Blair, Jim Bray, Beverly Garland, Roger Perry, James Van Patten
- Directors: Mark L. Lester
- Writers: Irwin Yablans, Barry Schneider
- Producers: Bruce Cohn Curtis, Irwin Yablans, Joseph Wolf
- Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Colour, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
- Language English
- Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
- Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.85:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) (US MPAA rating. See details.)
- Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
- DVD Release Date: 24 Aug 2004
- Run Time: 103 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00026L7Q8
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 49,883 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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A film that was obviously trying to cash in on the roller disco craze of the time.Linda blair has some amazing outfits & does some great skating(though im not sure if she actually does all her own skating scenes in this!)L.B plays Terry a rich girl who,when the summer is over,is leaving for college.Whilst down at the beach she notices that theres a roller boogie contest in town so asks for skating lessons from Bobby(the best skater around).Of course Terry & Bobby soon start a romance.Theres also a subplot about the local skating rink being closed down,a plot involving gangsters etc.Fun flick to be appreciated by any Linda fans!!
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a great film at a great price, pity region was wrong. Hit the 70's skating scene.... Roll on, lovin the skatin and the music. Dance boogie wonderland...
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I've liked Linda Blair ever since her prison shower scene in Chained Heat. (U2's Bono famously introduced "Helter Skelter", "Charles Manson stole this song from the Beatles, and we're stealing it back!" Well, the musical "Chicago" stole women in prison movies, and I'm stealing them back -- with a B-Movie script I'm working on, "Bars of Iron, Bars of Soap", with Kylie Minogue in mind as the warden). Anyway, back to roller disco movies.... Roller Boogie doesn't quite measure up to Xanadu, although Linda Blair is more than ample for the role of spandex wearer. (Olivia Newton-John is a goddess, but Blair is just so... skatable with). Both movies have Andy Gibb looking actors as so-so leads, so it's up to the ladies to carry the load. (And oh, how Blair carries the load, quite well in spandex indeed). Xanadu obviously has the superior soundtrack, with Olivia, ELO, and Gene Kelly putting on the hits and ritz. That said, Roller Boogie uses Earth, Wind, and Fire's "Boogie Wonderland", although it seems to be the sole hit the producers were willing to pay for. The rest of the soundtrack sounds like an episode of CHiPs. Visually - babe wise - Roller Boogie does quite well, with its bountiful LA "foxes next door"... in spandex. In terms of production value, I'd rank Roller Boogie below Xanadu and on par with The Boy In The Plastic Bubble -- which didn't have disco or rollerskates, but did have a lead actress that looked like Blair, and a lead (John Travolta) who was literally in a bubble, while Blair's Roller Boogie character is in the "bubble" her super-rich, suffocating parents want for her. Her lawyer dad thinks disco is dangerous: "It-it-it's that inSANE disco music! You're an artist, a musical genius! And I'm not going to have my daughter skating!" But we know better. We know more than super-rich lawyers! You can't stop disco! (Blair's home life scenes have a nostalgic quality, with the look and drama of "Dynasty" - not too shabby). Roller Boogie is a great transport back to a golden age of disco fever and gilded spandex -- you can't beat that! Except with Xanadu, the pure angelic white leg warmers to Roller Boogie's bodacious ta tas in spandex.
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