I just saw Whip It the other night. Cheapy movie, put pretty good. It kind of reminds me of another girls athletic movie called Stick It, which I really enjoyed. Ellen Page just has something that I like. I rented another movie of hers that I saw a year or two ago called Hard Candy where she plays a psycho bitch from hell.
Last night I saw Lifeguard, a movie that was kind of a coming of age movie made in the mid 70's. The movie was really good as was the acting and the music. Kathleen Quinlan played a very vulnerable 17 year old girl and was outstanding. Sam Elliot made this his break out role, as did Quinlan. I also loved the storyline where a guy says to hell with what everybody expects him to do, and he ends up giving up a lot to do his own thing. At the end of the movie, I felt that Elliot played a defiant, yet vulnerable role. This is a really good movie that a lot of people don't really know about.