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Could it be Roller Boogie with Linda Blair?
Roller Boogie (1979)
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Watched a film in the 1980's which was mostly set in a roller disco club. A teenage girl who possibly was having a difficult time in her life and finds this club a welcome sanctuary, although she might have encountered unfriendly individuals at some point in the movie.
Could it be Roller Boogie with Linda Blair?
Roller Boogie (1979)
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I'm sure it wasn't Roller Boogie. The movie or drama I am thinking about is set in the UK and as far as I can remember it was quite gritty with some punkish type characters.
I've never actually seen it, but it could be The Music Machine.
BBC play called Stars of the Roller State Disco (1984) maybe...
Described by TV Cream thus: "w Michael Hastings. Odd, well-remembered but perhaps not brilliant near-future dystopian satire, positing a grim future where permanently unemployed youths are forcibly inducted into the graffiti-covered titular disco to learn basic skills from endless instructional videos in the increasingly folorn hope of gaining employment, skating gormlessly round and round in the meantime. Perry Benson plays Carly, a Chippendale-obsessed apprentice carpenter proudly rejecting offers of work he considers beneath him ('I'm a craftsman!') to the consternation of girlfriend Cathy Murphy. Shot on good old videotape in three days by Alan Clarke, on a cavernous set part-designed by writer Hastings, the on-the-nose nature of the play's overarching conceit is offset to an extent by its many quirks, notably the casting of the gawky, speccy Benson as something approaching a romantic hero."
It wasn't the Music Machine. I'm pretty familiar with that one and there are no roller skates that I can recall.
Not DISCO FEVER (1979) with the late Gerry Sundquist, perhaps?
I remember Stars Of Roller State Disco well, the youths, while serving their time there, would frequently have sex in the dark area of the boiler room. The films ends with a new kid arriving and Perry Benson showing him round. Carly then skates around the disco one last time, slitting his wrists as he does so, leaving a trail of blood behind him as he skates around the rink one last time.
It certainly did ring very true of 'Scum' at the time. It shown on BBC 2 late at night, around 1984 as I recall.
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