''Get Rollin'' is a 1980 American

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film directed by J. Terrance Mitchell. The film focuses on various skating personalities at Brooklyn's Empire Rollerdrome. It features numerous interviews, roller disco footage, stunts to popular songs, and dramatized versions of their auditions. Specifically, it features skaters Pat "the Cat" Richardson, also known as "the Cowboy"; and Vincent "Vinzerelli" Brown, a caseworker with

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Reception

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'' praised the film's engagement and format ,as "deceptively simple". The review also complimented the starring cast, and concluded that the film was "so full of genuine good feelings that one comes out of theater in a state of something like pure, wonderful elation." In 2015, '' Indiewire'' similarly commented that the two starring skaters were "bright, funny, colorful, and above all inspiring" but criticised the overall structure as loose and that several scenes were "very painfully and obviously staged".

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'' called it a "noisy and imperfect semidocumentary" and an attempt to recreate "''

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'' on wheels". The reviewer criticised the film's long length and poor plot, but complimented an "inventive" cinematic shot featuring Pat the Cat skating on the

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and wrote that "there is a lot pleasure of in watching the wonderful skaters". Upon its release, the film did not screen extensively. It was broadcast on television in the Netherlands in an unknown year.

Featured songs

* " Dance with Me" by Peter Brown, 1978

References

External links

* American documentary films 1980 films Roller skating films 1980s English-language films 1980s American films English-language documentary films {{US-documentary-film-stub Disco films

Reception

Featured songs

See also

Other films released during the late 1970s disco and jukebox movie musical craze

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