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{{Short description|1979 American musical film}}
{{Use American English|date=January 2025}}
{{Infobox film
| name           = Roller Boogie
| image          = Rollerboogie.jpg
| caption        = Theatrical release poster
| director       = [[Mark L. Lester]]
| producer       = Bruce Cohn Curtis
| screenplay     = Barry Schneider
| story          = [[Irwin Yablans]]
| starring       = {{plainlist|
* [[Linda Blair]]
* [[Beverly Garland]]
* [[Roger Perry]]
* Jimmy Van Patten
* [[Kimberly Beck]]
* [[Sean McClory]]
* [[Mark Goddard]]
}}
| music          = [[Craig Safan]]
| cinematography = [[Dean Cundey]]
| editing        = {{unbulleted list|Byron "Buzz" Brandt|Edilberto Cruz|Edward Salier}}
| studio         = [[Compass International Pictures]]
| distributor    = [[United Artists]]
| released       = {{Film date|1979|12|19}}
| runtime        = 103 minutes
| country        = United States
| language       = English
| budget         = $1.5 million<ref name=schreger>{{cite news|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=December 31, 1979|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-roller-boogie-movi/68331971/|last=Schreger|first=Charles|pages=8–{{URL|https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times/124339546/|9}}|via=Newspapers.com|title=Irwin Yablans Boogies All the Way to the Bank|access-date=May 10, 2023|archive-date=May 10, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230510153017/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-roller-boogie-movi/68331971/|url-status=live}}</ref>
| gross          = $13.3 million<ref name=bom>{{cite web|work=[[Box Office Mojo]]|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0079822/|title=Roller Boogie|access-date=May 9, 2023|archive-date=May 10, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230510153017/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0079822/|url-status=live}}</ref>
}}

'''''Roller Boogie''''' is a 1979 American [[teen film|teen]] [[musical film|musical]] [[exploitation film]]<ref>{{cite web|work=[[The Loft Cinema]]|title=Roller Boogie|url=https://loftcinema.org/film/roller-boogie/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20230510014559/https://loftcinema.org/film/roller-boogie/|archive-date=May 10, 2023}}</ref> about [[roller disco]], 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, Los Angeles|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]] skater (Bray). The two seek to thwart efforts from a powerful mobster attempting to acquire the land where a popular [[roller rink]] is located.

The film was developed by [[Irwin Yablans]], head of [[Compass International Pictures]], who had experienced notable commercial success with ''[[Halloween (1978 film)|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 (choreographer)|David Winters]]. Over 50 professional skaters were employed for the film.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Wanamaker |first1=Marc |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ehv3EAAAQBAJ&dq=jim+bray+skater&pg=PT234 |title=Hollywood on the Santa Monica Beach |last2=Verge |first2=Arthur C. |date=2023-10-30 |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |isbn=978-1-4396-7972-2 |language=en}}</ref>

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 [[camp (style)|campy]] style and focus on disco and roller skating culture.<ref name=trailers>{{cite web|work=[[Trailers from Hell]]|title=David DeCoteau on ''Roller Boogie''|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kioyvWculnc&embeds_euri=https%3A%2F%2Ftrailersfromhell.com%2F&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE&feature=emb_title|date=April 16, 2015|url-status=bot: unknown|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230516051157/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kioyvWculnc&embeds_euri=https://trailersfromhell.com/&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE&feature=emb_title|archive-date=May 16, 2023|access-date=May 10, 2023}}</ref>