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The Runaways
The film tells the story of two friends, Joanne Jet and Cherie Curie, who have a perfect experience in their lives. The friends of teenagers from southern California rebel moved to rock stars in the legendary group. It's that group that paved the way for future generations of all girls. Now, that group seems to fall under the influence of Svengali-like of the rock impresario Kim Fowley, who transforms the group into a different course of their lives.
16 February 1935, New York City, New York, USA
11 September 1984, Lexington Park, Maryland, USA
17 July 1956, USA
14 February 1994, Tupelo, Mississippi, USA
March 09, 2011
The film might be intended as a cautionary tale, but that tends to get lost amid the lurid thrills and tacked-on happy ending.
April 09, 2010
There's a flinty integrity in this movie's look at the rock grind, and Stewart and Fanning are intensely watchable.
September 08, 2010
The result is an entertaining mess: lively and stylish, but frustratingly inconsequential.
April 08, 2012
Fanning makes Currie's fame- and pharmaceutical-fueled transformation/liberation at once exhilarating and terrifying.
April 09, 2010
Aside from following the clichéd (if real) storyline, The Runaways is plagued by something of a split personality, thanks to its two young stars.
November 05, 2011
... A typical story of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll, but it's told with style and energy that keep it from bogging down amid the clichés.
April 09, 2010
While Jett and Currie emerge as blurry, half-formed characters, Shannon's Fowley brings the contradictions the Runaways embodied into sharp, biting focus.
April 04, 2011
[It chooses] to merely nod at the more complicated, strange and exciting aspects of the band's story and spend most of its time touching on the usual stuff
April 09, 2010
Excess is abundant in photographer and music-video director Floria Sigismondi's energetic debut.
March 30, 2011
In age-appropriate casting, Fanning doesn't put a platform boot wrong in her portrayal of a valley girl rock chick (circa. 1975) growing up way too fast, with neither the inclination nor the wherewithal to slow down.
October 07, 2016
A full-throttle joyride through fame's treacherous trenches.
July 06, 2010
The Runaways is cool, but the Runaways were just so much cooler.
