Roller Boogie (1979)

Love is born to boogie in this electrifying and enjoyable (The Hollywood Reporter) romantic adventure about a Beverly Hills teen who takes love for a spin with a boy from the wrong side of the roller rink! Starring Linda Blair (The Exorcist) Roller Boogie is the ultimate fast-paced freewheeling 70s roller romp full of hot bodies (Variety) cool skating and hard-driving disco music (Film Journal)! Terry Barkley (Blair) has a talent for the flute a scholarship to Juilliard and her whole future planned out until she falls head over wheels for a roller boogie bad boy (Jim Bray). But Terry may lose more than her bearings when the local roller park is threatened by a shady development deal and the mob threatens to turn their boogie hot spot into a disco inferno!System Requirements: Running Time 104 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: PG UPC: 027616910073 Manufacturer No: 1006866 Product Description

Lind Blair never looked so good!

Yes, I admit it. The ONLY reason I bought this DVD was to see Linda Blair in all her panty hosed/spandex glory. Was I disappointed? NO!!!!!!!!
Linda is fantastic as the young, nubile Theresa 'Terry' Barkley. About to go to Julliard, Terry picks up a new fad-Roller skating. She soon catches the eye of Robert "Bobby" James. (Played by Jim Bray, a real life champion skater, in his only film role) After turning down his advances at first, soon, he is teaching her how to `dance skate', and they fall in love. Mixed in the plot is a "Roller Boogie" contest which Terry wants to win, local mobsters who plan to close down the Boogie hall (and also have Terry's dad as their lawyer) and the young gang of skaters(Led by Bobbie and Terry) determined to stop them.
This being a "PG" film, Linda Blair does get nude, as she did in a few others but I like the fun spirit of this one, as opposed to the meaner, harder feeling of her other films.
And she looks simply stunning thru out the entire movie. Her body, while not nude, IS on display here quite often! And yes, Linda did do a lot of her own skating. It seems like she enjoyed making this movie and it shows on the screen.
I can think of worse ways to spend an hour and 40 minutes.
November 29, 2007

Roller Boogie WOW!!!!

If you love the roller disco days of the 80's, then you will surely love this movie. It is a story of a young man Bobby James, played by Jim Bray who dreams of entering the olymics for his roller skating.
He meets a young uperclass woman Terry (played by Linda Blair) who is destined to go to Juliard music acadamy becuase of her musical genius. But Terry is fed up with her boring life.
She doesn't like always having to be little miss perfect, and she is looking to have some fun.
Terry loves to skate, so she asks Bobby (who is the best skater on the Venice Beach Boardwalk), if he would teach her all the moves on wheels. Of course they fall in love.
The story line itself is not the best part, but surely the skating and the funky disco music is.
I actually got to see Jim Bray skate in person, when he was promoting this movie, and he is one of the best Artistic skaters in the business. So if your into Fantrastic Roller skating and dancing on 8 wheels, then take a look at this Terrific 80's skating classic. November 24, 2007

"I used to hate to skate/now I can't wait!"

This is an awesome movie. It basically involves a time and place in the late seventies where disco and roller skating have basically taken over the world. The beautiful Linda Blair plays the heroine. She is an heiress who is a musical genius.

"I'm a musical genius! What a drag! What a bummer!"

She decides what she really wants to do is win a roller boogie contest. And to her this is more important than anything, including her music career. She recruits a young dufus that is a rollerskating genius. The dufus is best friends with 'Phones' who is sidekick. The Dufus and Phones are trying to take over the boardwalk and colonize it with roller rinks or something.

Linda Blair and the Dufus fall in love but the Dufus is so dumb he keeps messing things up. That is really about it. That is the whole movie. There is some cool disco music and some cool roller-disco dance moves. Besides the music the only reason I can think of for watching this is to watch that goddess Linda Blair.

I was at Wal-mart with my brother a couple days ago and I saw a hot girl that looked a lot like Linda Blair except she looked like a cow-girl. My brother insists she was Russian. So she was basically a Russian cow-girl Linda Blair look alike. I usually am not afraid to talk to girls but this girl made me too nervous to talk to.

August 21, 2007

If you were a teen or preteen in the 80s you have to have this

A must have if you grew up in the 80s and were a roller skater!! When I first ordered this, Amazon sent me a copy where the sound wasn't great, but I returned it no problem and had a replacement sent right away. July 26, 2007

Roller Boogie is Awesome

I was so excited to see that this movie was being sold on DVD. I really enjoy the show. I grew up in the 80's and I loved roller skating. If you are not a major critic and enjoy roller skating, then get the movie. The movie is really exciting with alot of great music and lots of skating. It brought back some of the memories of my younger days. I intend to buy two more movies for my and my friends. May 7, 2007

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