Roll Bounce (2005)

Director:

Malcolm D. Lee

Writer (WGA):

Norman Vance Jr. (written by)

Release Date:

23 September 2005 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Music | Romance

Plot:

1970s roller-skate jams fuel this coming-of-age comedy, as X and his friends, who rule their local rink...

Plot Keywords:

Father Son Relationship | Master Of Ceremony | Paperboy | Rollerskate Rink | Loss Of Wife

Awards:

2 wins & 6 nominations

Cast

Bow Wow	...	Xavier 'X' Smith
Chi McBride	...	Curtis Smith
Meagan Good	...	Naomi Phillips
Wesley Jonathan	...	Sweetness
Marcus T. Paulk	...	Boo
Rick Gonzalez	...	Naps
Jurnee Smollett	...	Tori
Brandon T. Jackson	...	Junior
Khleo Thomas	...	Mixed Mike
Kellita Smith	...	Vivian
Mike Epps	...	Byron
Charles Q. Murphy	...	Victor (as Charlie Murphy)
Nick Cannon	...	Bernard
Paul Wesley	...	Troy
Daniel Yabut	...	Roy

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for language and some crude humor.

Runtime:

112 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

Australia:M (DVD rating) | Singapore:NC-16 | Australia:PG | Iceland:L | Argentina:13 | Brazil:18 | UK:PG | USA:PG-13

Filming Locations:

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Company:

State Street Pictures

Trivia:

Ten percent of the movie's opening weekend gross was donated to the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Goofs:

Curtis is shown listening to Donny Hathaway's “Extension of a Man” album, listening to the song "For All We Know." This song is not on this album.

Quotes:

Junior: [continuing in playing the dozens] Your mouth looks like an explosion in a tin foil factory.
Tori: Oh yeah? Well at least I'm getting my teeth corrected. Look at yours. You need to stop chewing on those yellow crayons and start scrubbing with some Colgate yuck mouth.
[she slaps X five from behind his back while Boo, Mixed Mike, and Naps are laughing hysterically]
Junior: [stammering] That's not even fair. You can't say yuck mouth. And anyway, I'm allergic to toothpaste.

Movie Connections:

References "What's Happening!!" (1976)

Soundtrack:

Pure Gold

Exactly as Advertised!

We saw Roll Bounce this afternoon. It was exactly what I expected it to be. A predictable, exaggerated, silly, corny, inauthentic 70's nostalgia-fest.

We loved it! Seriously, it's probably in our top five for the year thus far. It was so much fun. Even the dramatic, serious moments were good and not laughable. My husband said afterwards he was thinking how funny it was that an emotional scene in an otherwise fluffy, insubstantial feel-good movie could evoke more feeling in him than all two hours of The Constant Gardener, for example.

Anyhow, we've both been a good mood ever since, we just had a great time at the movies. It was nice to see a good, clean, wholesome family movie that doesn't suck.