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‘Roll Bounce’: Roller skating hits Colombo
'Roll Bounce', the new roller-skating movie set in the late 1970s is now being screened at the Majestic cinema Colombo. Directed by Malcolm D. Lee, the film with the genre of comedy, drama romance and sports stars Bow Wow Brandon, Jackson Marcus, Paulk Rick Gonzalez and Khleo Thomas.

Set in Chicago and featuring Midwestern slide skating and other tricks unique to that region, "Roll Bounce" is the first of two roller-skating movies that will come out of Hollywood the year 2005.

The coming-of-age comedy from Malcolm D. Lee unfolds on the South Side of 1970's Chicago. It's the summer of 1978 and if one is looking for good times there is just one place to go: the local roller disco, where the music is hot, the girls are hotter, and the entire atmosphere is dynamite.

It is here, under the swirling colored lights and the spinning disco ball that thousands will experience lessons in friendship and love-and sometimes life teaches that you have to really get down in order to get back up on your feet. It all begins with Xavier Smith, also known as X, a young roller wiz who, along with his crew, once ruled supreme at their South Side of Chicago rink, the Palisades Garden.

But when the doors of their favorite hangout close, it marks the end of an era and the beginning of another that sees the boys venturing into completely foreign territory: the North Side's swanky Sweetwater Roller Rink, with its sleek, well-to-do roller-boys and gorgeous girls in short-shorts.

For X and his friends, Sweetwater is a brave new world that gives way to an impossible dream: to win the rink's annual Roller Jam Skate-Off.It's more than just a chance to take home a trophy for X--it's his opportunity to fulfill the potential his mother always saw in him and prove his own self-worth. Now, as these spirited South Side skaters take on Sweetwater's greatest champ-that superfine roller god named Sweetness--they're going to have to rock, roll, bounce, boogie--and find their own true rhythm in the process.

Meanwhile X deals with his troubles at home, as his mother has recently died and his dad, Curtis struggles to make ends meet. The two attempts to understand each others' grief and help one another to move beyond it.

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