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 becoming the fastest thing on eight wheels. Now
she’s doing things she never dreamed of -- fearlessly facing
off with bad-ass rivals like Iron Maven (Academy Award®
nominee Juliette Lewis) and falling for a boy in a band
(singer/songwriter Landon Pigg) -- while trying to be a
heroine to her new friends and teammates. But when her
secret gets out, Bliss will face her toughest fight yet: to
take control of the future . . . on her own terms.
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