Kansas City Bomber

Buy This Item Kansas City Bomber by Warner Home Video  Available from Amazon  $12.99  on 1-6-2009     Baseball has its Bull Durham. Basketball has Hoosiers. Football has Rudy. And the mad sport of the roller game has Kansas City Bomber. Step aside, boys, she's coming through. Disco was in, polyester was cool and the roller game was the hottest thing on wheels when this smash-mouth spinfest elbowed its way onto screens. Raquel Welch plays K.C., a single mom (Jodie Foster plays her daughter) who laces up to earn a living for her family. Real competition venues provide settings. Some true-life roller-game players appear in the film. And Welch adds to the authenticity, navigating the banked oval like a rocket-powered bumper car. Round and round she goes. Where she stops may be the top of the roller world. Reader Reviews K.C. Carr is on the fast track to becoming a star in Roller Derby. A divorcee with two children, she has what pop culture would call the "it" factor; but her goal may ultimately prove to be impossible. Raquel Welch does an outstanding job in portraying the many sides of Carr, in a script which highlights the personal and professional drama in the main character's life. Helena Kallianiotes (Jackie Burdette) received a 1973 Golden Glode nomination for Best Supporting Actress - Movie, as the veteran team leader who refuses to share center stage with Carr. Team owner Burt Henry - Kevin McCarthy - plays on the drive of Carr to achieve success in the sport and have a lasting, loving relationship. Directed by Jerrold Freedman and initially released in August 1972, the skating sequences are fantastic and the parallel plot involving Carr's personal life is believable. The tension between Carr, Burdette and Henry spills onto the track, with a match-race to determine who is the best, with the dreams of the loser being crushed in front of fans and teammates. Kansas City Bomber is a winner, as it depicts the game within the game of life and the steepness in the banked turns to truly find happiness.

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