Once, roller skating was a family-friendly activity. At the height of the roller skating craze, during the 1970s and ’80s, you went to the roller rink and banged your feet against the wood while dancing to “Don’t Bring Me Down” by Electric Light Orchestra. Or maybe you went to the local theater just to stare in wonder at Linda Blair in “Roller Boogie,” wishing that one day you too could find love on the trashy Venice Beach boardwalk.

The popularity of roller derby in the early aughts, with help from Drew Barrymore’s roller derby big screen tale, “Whip It,” knocked that wholesome image of roller skating senseless; women decked out in fishnet stockings and rainbow-colored uniforms, tackled, smacked and pushed each other to the ground.

It wasn’t the only time women in film skated over the opposition.

Though Heather Graham’s Rollergirl was an adorable but vulnerable pornographic fantasy in “Boogie Nights,” her character’s most memorable scene was when a former high school acquaintance humiliated her during an “experimental” real-time film in the back of a limo. “You don’t ever disrespect me!” she shrieked, beating his face to a pulp with her skates.

In “Funny Girl,” Barbra Streisand as Fanny Brice used her roller skates to steal the spotlight as she fell and trounced during a vaudeville act, pretending to be incompetent in her skates.