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Roller Boogie. There is a sense in which "Roller Boogie" comes as a refreshing surprise: I didn't think it was still possible, in the dog-eared final days of the 1970s, to have this silly, innocent, lame-brained and naive movie. I'd always thought that when Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon grew up, that was it.
Amazon.com: Roller Boogie : Linda Blair, Jim Bray, Beverly Garland, James Van Patten, Rick Sciacca, Mark Goddard, Albert Insinnia, Patrick Wright, Nina Axelrod, Cher ...
Roller Boogie represents both the low and high points of actress Linda Blair 's adult career in acting. In 1977, Blair was busted for drug possession with the intent to sell, which pretty much put the kibosh on any further movie potential projects. Following Roller Boogie, she was relegated to doing mostly small b-fair movies.
It's the story of a rich girl (Linda Blair) who runs away to enter a disco roller-skating contest with a poor boy (Jim Bray). Along the way, they hook up with other skaters to keep the mob from taking over their favorite roller rink. It's as dumb as it sounds. [09 Dec 1993, p.F2]
Roller Boogie is a native NYer who realized her childhood dream to study clowning and aerial arts when she ditched her job designing for Hello Kitty and Swarovski to roll away with the circus. In 2013, she received the Charlie Cairoli Award for comedy magic. She has performed locally & internationally for Zippos Circus, Bindlestiff Family ...
Dec 12, 2014 · Gorgeous Linda Blair and her boy toy Jim Bray rally all the disco-skatin' kids they know to stop an evil developer from demolishing their favorite roller dis...
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Jul 28, 2015 · Roller Boogie (1979) is one of the most famous of the several roller disco films and shows that sprung up as the 1970s wound down. The movie was released just one month after the similar Romeo-and-Juliet-plus-skates film Skatetown, U.S.A. had bombed at the box office, though producer Irwin Yablans insisted that his film would not fail like ...
