1 | * ActorAllusion: |
2 | ** Maggie tells Bliss (Creator/ElliotPage) that [[Film/{{Juno}} having a kid changes everything.]] Bliss smirks in response. She also claims to be 22 when she is actually 17. Page definitely does have youthful looks, and really was 22 at the time of filming. |
3 | ** Maggie also tells Bliss that she can never have enough Lash Blast. That's a Cover Girl product, of which Drew Barrymore is a spokeswoman. |
4 | ** Music/{{Eve|Rapper}}, who played Rosa Sparks, used to go by the RedBaron "Eve of Destruction" (the name of Ari Gaynor's character) early in her career. |
5 | * BoxOfficeBomb: The film grossed $16.6 million against a $15 million budget. |
6 | * CastTheExpert: Aside from the billed actresses, most of the skaters in the fictional TXRD are played by actual UsefulNotes/RollerDerby players, mostly from the L.A. Derby Dolls. |
7 | * CompletelyDifferentTitle: The film is titled ''Bliss'' in France, [[CharacterTitle after its protagonist]]. |
8 | * DawsonCasting: 22-year-old Elliot Page as 17-year-old Bliss (who pretends to be 22 in order to get on the UsefulNotes/RollerDerby team, hilariously enough). And averted with Juliette Lewis - who was thirty-six years old, just like Iron Maven. |
9 | * DirectedByCastMember: Drew Barrymore directs the film and also has a supporting role as Smashley Simpson. |
10 | * RealLifeRelative: Bliss's younger sister Shania was played by Eulala Scheel, who happens to be Marcia Gay Harden's real-life daughter. This lends some RealitySubtext to Shania being Brooke's preferred daughter early in the film. |
11 | * Administrivia/TropesAreTools: Invoked by Creator/RogerEbert in his review of the film, pointing out that first-time director Barrymore had demonstrated a strong understanding of why things work the way they work in a sports movie. |
12 | * WordOfGay: Ari Gaynor's played Eva Destruction as a lesbian seductress. |
13 | * WriteWhatYouKnow: The book is inspired heavily by Shauna Cross's own experience in roller derby. Maggie Mayhem was her stage name. |
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