DanOregon
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Flipping through the dials and found "Roller Boogie" on Turner Classic Movies. Yeah, TCM!
This was the closest I could get to a a T and A movie as a kid, but the cheese factor is so enormous, the acting so bad, I can't look away. Linda Blair did look hot in it, and she lived at the place The Cars shot the "Magic" video and there's a guy who rolls around a rink with BJ on his shirt. Next time I saw Venice in a movie it was Ed Norton ruling the boardwalk as a skinhead.
The Plot:
Girl meets roller disco king, wants to enjoy life before heading off to Juliard and she takes lessons from Bobby James (Tony Manero on wheels) and they plan to enter the big Roller Boogie contest, but the rink's owner "Jammer" Delaney is under pressure to sell the building from some goons who just happend to be repped by rich girl Blair's dad who is a lawyer.
My favorite line is when "Phones" is so despondent over the rink closing that he joins the Hari Krishnas. His buddy (one of the Van Pattens) says "Phones is never going to listen to boogie music ever again." Ah, my youth.
This was the closest I could get to a a T and A movie as a kid, but the cheese factor is so enormous, the acting so bad, I can't look away. Linda Blair did look hot in it, and she lived at the place The Cars shot the "Magic" video and there's a guy who rolls around a rink with BJ on his shirt. Next time I saw Venice in a movie it was Ed Norton ruling the boardwalk as a skinhead.
The Plot:
Girl meets roller disco king, wants to enjoy life before heading off to Juliard and she takes lessons from Bobby James (Tony Manero on wheels) and they plan to enter the big Roller Boogie contest, but the rink's owner "Jammer" Delaney is under pressure to sell the building from some goons who just happend to be repped by rich girl Blair's dad who is a lawyer.
My favorite line is when "Phones" is so despondent over the rink closing that he joins the Hari Krishnas. His buddy (one of the Van Pattens) says "Phones is never going to listen to boogie music ever again." Ah, my youth.