This movie was amazing in many ways including the casting (mom, dad, sister, roller skating buddies, coach, best friend, boyfriend), and acting. The filming of many of the scenes was extremely well done, too, e.g., skating, pool, beauty pagent. A lot was packed into an under 2 hour film and it could have spent more time developing some of the relationships and resolutions to problems making them more real (e.g., mother-daughter-skating). SPOILER - this movie follows the recent trend of going "non formula" in a few of the many expected endings. I liked that you never knew how things would turn out, but my 13 year old did not. There also seemed to be untied relationship loose ends at the end. Ellen Page is incredible as usual.