Roller Town

Sep 15, 2011

1h 15m

★ 5.6

Disco didn't die, it was murdered.

Overview

Roller-skaters fight back against the video-game gangsters trying to take over their town.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Northeast Films

D Films

Roller Town Trailers

Cast

Leo / Boogaloos Member

Mark Little

Julia

Kayla Lorette

Gregs (as George William Basil)

George Basil

Beef

Pat Thornton

Murray

Brian Heighton

Davis / Boogaloos Member

Scott Vrooman

Tad / John Spltbt

Kyle Dooley

Martin

Christopher Shore

Music

Adam Robert Bayne

Beth

Evany Rosen

Grandpa / God of Disco

Brian Macquarrie

Dance Instructor / Vomiting Girl

Cheryl Hann

Josie, the daughter of the town's wealthiest businessman, faces problems at home and wishes to leave town but is disoriented. Her decision is finalized after she falls asleep in a Target dressing room. She awakens to find herself locked in the store overnight with the janitor, Jim, the town "no hoper" and liar.

6.6

The Rink

Dec 4, 1916

After amusements working in a restaurant, a waiter uses his lunch break to go roller skating.

6.4

Follow That Bird

Aug 2, 1985

Big Bird is sent to live far from Sesame Street by a pesky social worker, who thinks it would be better for him to live with other birds. Unhappy, Big Bird runs away from his foster home, prompting the rest of the Sesame Street gang to go on a cross-country journey to find him.

7.0

Ready.. Set.. Zoom!

Apr 29, 1955

Among the strategies that fail in Wile E. Coyote's attempts to catch the Roadrunner: glue on the road, a giant rubber band, an outboard motor in a wash tub, and dressing in drag as a female Roadrunner.

5.1

Skatetown, U.S.A.

Oct 1, 1979

A street-gang leader challenges a handsome young skater in a championship contest at the local roller-disco rink.

4.8

At Full Speed

Jun 7, 1982

A young couple who are amateur roller-skating buffs practice their chosen avocation at a Parisian roller rink. Their hopes rise with a chance to go to Chicago to compete, especially when a magazine reporter assures them that his company will back them -- but then lets them know some sex-related business is a part of the package. Caught up in the couple's drama are several other characters who look like they might need some help themselves, making the problem of how to get to the Windy City seem more and more insoluble.

10.0

Roller Squad

Jul 18, 2021

A mysterious serial killer attacks the roller skater community in London. The police cannot catch him, as he is a very skilled and fast roller skater himself. A group of friends decide to take the matter in their own hands, and organise a man hunt across the streets of London.

5.5

Don't Shove

Aug 31, 1919

Harold and his rival fight over Bebe on her birthday, first at her home and then at a nearby skating rink.

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0.0

Roll Freddie Roll

Mar 28, 1978

Fan film/remake of the 1974 made-for-TV film ROLL, FREDDY, ROLL, made by Missouri college students in 1978.

0.0

I Constantly Thank God for Esteban

Invalid Date

Home alone on the eve of her First Communion, 12-year-old Carmen receives an unexpected visit from a trio of neighborhood roller girls and scooter boys. While at her home, the kids make Carmen painfully aware of her religious upbringing, ultimately stealing her First Communion dress, culminating in a final showdown at their local roller rink.

0.0

Hot Wheelz

Invalid Date

A roller skating rink employee develops an infatuation with the rink's one regular patron.

3.9

Rollerball

Feb 8, 2002

In this fast action-packed thriller, Jonathan, Marcus, and Aurora compete in a dangerous, fierce sport called Rollerball. Although, Johnathan and Marcus try to quit, cruel and vindictive promoter Alexi Petrovich encourages them to still participate.

5.3

Steal

May 8, 2002

An entrepreneurial criminal, Slim (Dorff) is as smart as they come. Cocky and confident, he assembles a team of risk-taking rush-seekers to pull off a series of five bank heists, each time using a different extreme sport to make the getaway. Following an unexpected windfall on only their second job, the gang nets $20 million in untraceable bonds. Having scored enough money to retire on, Slim and his crew decide to call the robbery game quits. But both the mob and the police have other plans in mind for Slim: they want him to keep working, for them.

8.5

Get Rollin'

Apr 24, 1980

A documentary about Pat the Cat and other roller disco skaters who want to make it big doing what they do.

5.7

Xanadu

Aug 8, 1980

Kira, a Greek muse incarnated on Earth to inspire people, helps Dan McGuire and an artist named Sonny Malone to meet. She inspires them to build a huge disco roller rink called Xanadu.

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0.0

L.A. Roll

Feb 19, 2020

As the pressures of daily life mount in a rapidly changing city, some residents turn to dance roller skating as an activity for release, creating a style unique to Los Angeles.

5.3

Solarbabies

Nov 26, 1986

In a future in which most water has disappeared from the Earth, we find a group of children, mostly teenagers, who are living at an orphanage, run by the despotic rulers of the new Earth. The group in question plays a hockey based game on roller skates and is quite good. It has given them a unity that transcends the attempts to bring them to heel by the government. Finding an orb of special power, they find it has unusual effects on them. They escape from the orphanage (on skates) and try to cross the wasteland looking for a place they can live free as the storm-troopers search for them and the orb.

5.5

Roller Boogie

Dec 19, 1979

Teen lovers Bobby and Terry band together with other roller skaters to try and prevent a powerful mobster taking over the land their favourite skating rink sits on, and compete in the Boogie Contest.

7.4

United Skates

Apr 19, 2018

When America's last standing roller rinks are threatened with closure, a community of thousands battle in a racially charged environment to save an underground subculture.