Roller Boogie

Roller Boogie is a 1979 American teen musical exploitation film[3] directed by Mark L. Lester and starring Linda Blair, Jim Bray, Beverly Garland, Roger Perry, Mark Goddard, Jimmy Van Patten, and Kimberly Beck. Set in the Venice suburb of Los Angeles at the height of the roller skating fad of the late 1970s, it follows an upper-class young woman (Blair) who falls in love with a working class fellow skater (Bray) while the two seek to thwart efforts from a powerful mobster attempting to acquire the land where a popular roller rink is located.

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Roller Boogie
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Directed by	Mark L. Lester
Screenplay by	Barry Schneider
Story by	Irwin Yablans
Produced by	Bruce Cohn Curtis
Starring	Linda Blair Jim Bray Beverly Garland Roger Perry Jimmy Van Patten Kimberly Beck Sean McClory Mark Goddard
Cinematography	Dean Cundey
Edited by	Byron "Buzz" Brandt Edilberto Cruz Edward Salier
Music by	Craig Safan
Production company	Compass International Pictures
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date	December 19, 1979 (1979-12-19)
Running time	103 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$1.5 million[1]
Box office	$13.3 million[2]

The film was developed by Irwin Yablans, head of Compass International Pictures, who had experienced notable commercial success with Halloween (1978), which was a major box-office hit the year prior. Filming took place in Los Angeles in the summer of 1979, and its elaborate skating sequences were choreographed by David Winters.

Released by United Artists on December 19, 1979, Roller Boogie received mostly negative reviews from film critics, who deemed it a shallow film exploiting the trends of disco and roller skating, though it was a box office success, grossing over $13 million. In the years since its original release, the film has developed a cult following for its campy style and focus on disco and roller skating culture.[4]