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The Runaways (DVD, 2010)
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Interesting, true to life story. Couldn’t stop watching from beginning until end.
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Very disappointed in the horrible language (every other word being the F bomb) and sexual content! Not one to watch with younger individuals. My 15 year old daughter was excited to watch it...I was horrified!!! Not a feel good family movie, at all!!!!!! ***Lots of smoking, drinking, drugs, suggestiveness, sex, disrespect, & HORRID language!!!
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This was a good movie. I really liked to see Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning finally playing characters that were women, not girls. And I think they both did a killer job. I really believed Kristen as Jett, and I am fans of both women. She really got the Joan Jett swagger down, and I loved her sneering rebelliousness throughout the movie. She really made me feel like she could kick my ass, despite her size and weight! It made me want to go out and buy my own electric guitar! But this story has been told over and over and over. It's the classic story of the fast rise to fame and then the equally fast fall because of sex, drugs and rock and roll. I've seen it in Ray, I've seen it in Walk the Line, and I've seen it in a billion other movies about bands. If it weren't for the performances by Stewart and Fanning, I'd have said leave it, you don't need to watch it. But I honestly think that it's worth seeing because of their portrayals of two really different characters. And also, you have to see Dakota Fanning do Cherri Currie's singing, it's almost identical and I was so impressed! She sang "Cherry Bomb" in one scene and I'd have sworn it was Currie's voice had I not read that she did her own singing. Fanning actually spent some time with Currie getting her voice down, and she nailed it! I feel like watching these two young actresses come of age in this movie is worth seeing it. You'll never really look at them the same, and if you're like me, you'll walk away with even more respect for them. I love that they were chosen for this film, and I can't see what's next for them both (and I don't mean Twilight). . .Read full review
The Runaways was a mid- to late-70s American rock band consisting solely of mid-teen girls. While never really that successful in the States, the band was actually huge in Japan. Contrary to the movie's title, though, the film is more about the band's singer, Cherie Currie, & her relationship/friendship with bandmate Joan Jett, than the band itself. Which is a shame because while their story is interesting, their 3 bandmates are mainly relegated to the background rather than actively included in this film titled after the band. While their drummer, unfortunately, died a few years ago, the remaining bandmates would find fame in their own right. Lead guitarist Lita Ford would go on to a succcesful solo career, while their earliest bassist (Micki Steele) would find success with fellow girl group The Bangles in the mid-80s. The bass slot would prove a revolving door, & the experience was, apparently, sufficiently bad enough for the bass player who experienced the band's greatest success to threatened to sue if her name was used in the movie. Thus the bass player in the movie is actually a fictional character! The greatest indication that the film was made expressly to highlight Cherie & Joan comes at the end of the film when its revealed what became to the 2 of them while not a word is mentioned of the remaining bandmates. Overall, the film is a good story of 2 girls who sought the fame of rock & roll, yet only one would continue after it to this day. Definitely worth checking out, although a truer account of _the band's_ story is to be found in the documentary "Edgeplay - A Film About The Runaways". In that film, all the ex-Runaways, minus Joan, took part.Read full review
Great movie based on facts. Very good performances by Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning!
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