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HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: 25 Passes to Drew Barrymore’s ‘Whip It’ in Chicago With Ellen Page
CHICAGO – In our latest edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 25 admit-two run-of-engagement Chicago passes up for grabs to the new film “Whip It,” which is Drew Barrymore’s directorial debut!
“Whip It” stars Ellen Page (of “Juno” fame), Marcia Gay Harden, Kristen Wiig, Drew Barrymore, Juliette Lewis, Jimmy Fallon, Alia Shawkat, Eve, Zoe Bell, Ari Graynor, Eulala Scheel, Andrew Wilson, Carlo Alban, Landon Pigg, Rachel Piplica, Kristen Adolfi and Daniel Stern.
To win your free pass to “Whip It” in Chicago courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, all you need to do is tell us how you’ve been a hero in this Web-based submission form. That’s it! “Whip It” opens nationwide on Oct. 2, 2009. Directions to enter this HollywoodChicago.com Hookup and immediately win can be found beneath the graphic below.
Image credit: Fox Searchlight Pictures
Here is the plot description for “Whip It”:
For years, Bliss Cavendar (Academy Award nominee Ellen Page) has been dreaming of escaping her tiny, truck stop of a town in Bodeen, Texas. Unfortunately, her devoted and beauty pageant-obsessed mother (Academy Award winner Marcia Gay Harden) is convinced that Bliss can only succeed in life if she wins the crown at the local Miss Blue Bonnet Pageant.
But the awkward outsider knows there’s something bigger and better out there. When Bliss sneaks off to the big city of Austin with her best friend, Pash (Alia Shawkat), she discovers a world unlike anything she could ever imagine: roller derby with its girl-power-meets-punk-rock spirit and its liberating celebration of wild individuality.
Inspired by the likes of Maggie Mayhem (Kristen Wiig), Bliss secretly tries out for a spot on the Hurl Scouts: a rag-tag team of scrappy underdogs. Soon she’s trading in her gowns and crowns for skirts, skates and scrapes and becoming her alter ego: Babe Ruthless. Leading a precarious double life, Bliss may be a waitress at Bodeen’s Oink Joint by day. But by night, she’s becoming the fastest thing on eight wheels.
Now she’s doing things she never dreamed of – fearlessly facing off with bad-ass rivals like Iron Maven (Academy Award nominee Juliette Lewis) and falling for a boy in a band (singer and songwriter Landon Pigg) – while trying to be a heroine to her new friends and teammates. But when her secret gets out, Bliss will face her toughest fight yet: to take control of the future… on her own terms.
The movie trailer for “Whip It” can be viewed now below.
To secure your free “Whip It” pass, you must be logged into your HollywoodChicago.com Web site account. If you don’t yet have one, you can quickly register here. Having a free Web site account with a valid e-mail address is required to win this HollywoodChicago.com Hookup.
Next, simply tell us what you’ve done in your life to be a hero. You must submit your answer using this confidential, Web-based submission form. Please do not comment in this Hookup. Your entry will be invalid if you only comment here and don’t submit into our Web-based form. Please only submit your answer using this submission form.
You must include your first and last name, e-mail address and physical mailing address in your submission. Your personal information will not be sold or shared, will be kept strictly confidential and is only for awarding winning entries. Please answer our question below.
This HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film is simple: 25 HollywoodChicago.com readers will be randomly selected as the winners of our “Whip It” Hookup! The winners will be mailed the movie passes at our expense. Good luck!
By ADAM FENDELMAN |
hero
I am a hero in that I help everyone who asks me for help on a daily basis - Im exhausted but Im a hero.
Make Em Laugh
I had always been told I was funny and I wanted to prove to myself that I could be funny. I finally worked up the courage to be my own hero and take an improv class and when the class was finished I was asked to be a performer in the local improv troupe. Taking the class was probably the best decision I could have made.
I am a hero to those that
I am a hero to those that i teach in my classroom. The future of america
By being an Educator.
By being an Educator.
I am a hero becasue I am
I am a hero becasue I am an eductor.
Hero
I try to give blood and I am preparing myself to support my parents since they don’t have a retirement fund. I will be their hero in less than five years. Scary!
I went to Washington D.C.
I went to Washington D.C. and lobbied for the invisible children of Uganda.
WHIP IT
I HAVE GIVEN MONEY TO THE HOMELESS AND I HAVE BEEN THERE FOR FRIENDS AND FAMILY WHEN THEY NEEDED ME THE MOST. I HAVE FEED THE HUNGRY AND GIVEN CLOTHES TO THE NEEDY. AS A VOLUNTEER I HAVE WORKED WITH THE HOMELESS AND THE COMMUNITY FOR 20 PLUS YEARS.