roll bounce
- Release Date
- September 23, 2005
- Director
- Malcolm D. Lee
- Cast
- Shad Moss , Chi McBride , Meagan Good , Wesley Jonathan , Marcus T. Paulk , Rick Gonzalez
- Runtime
- 107
- Main Genre
- Comedy
- Writers
- Norman Vance Jr.
- Tagline
- BOUNCE, ROCK, SKATE, ROLL
- Website
- http://www.rollbounce.com/
Summary
It’s the summer of ’78 and if you’re looking for good times there is just one place to go: the local roller disco, where the music is hot, the girls are hotter, and the entire atmosphere is dynamite. It is here, under the swirling colored lights and the spinning disco ball that thousands will experience lessons in friendship and love ... and sometimes life teaches that you have to really get down in order to get back up on your feet. From director Malcolm D. Lee (UNDERCOVER BROTHER) comes a fresh -- and undeniably funky -- coming of age comedy on wheels: ROLL BOUNCE. Set at the height of the roller disco era, when “jam skating” was born, the film combines the retro thrills of 70s dance and music with the moving story of a family trying to find a way to roll through hard times to a better future. Filled with classic soul tunes, outrageous skating moves and the unforgettable romance of the “couples skate,” ROLL BOUNCE is an infectiously fun trip into a world where when the lights went low and the music came up, you could roll in to anything. It all begins with Xavier Smith (Bow Wow), also known as X, a young roller wiz who, along with his crew, once ruled supreme at their South Side of Chicago rink, the Palisades Gardens. But when the doors of their favorite hangout close, it marks the end of an era and the beginning of another that sees the boys venturing into completely foreign territory: the North Side’s swanky Sweetwater Roller Rink, with its sleek, well-to-do roller-boys and gorgeous girls in short-shorts. For X and his friends, Sweetwater is a brave new world that gives way to an impossible dream: to win the rink’s annual Roller Jam Skate-Off. It’s more than just a chance to take home a trophy for X -- it’s his opportunity to fulfill the potential his mother always saw in him and prove his own self-worth. Now, as these spirited South Side skaters take on Sweetwater’s greatest champ -- that superfine roller god named Sweetness (Wesley Jonathan) -- they’re going to have to rock, roll, bounce, boogie ... and find their own true rhythm in the process.
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