The Runaways

    The Runaways
    2010

    Synopsis

    Joan Jett and Cherie Currie, two rebellious teenagers from Southern California, become the frontwomen for The Runaways -- the now-legendary group that paved the way for future generations of female rockers. Under the Svengali-like influence of impresario Kim Fowley, the band becomes a huge success.

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    Cast

    • Kristen StewartJoan Jett
    • Dakota FanningCherie Currie
    • Michael ShannonKim Fowley
    • Stella MaeveSandy West
    • Scout Taylor-ComptonLita Ford
    • Alia ShawkatRobin
    • Riley KeoughMarie Currie
    • Johnny LewisScottie
    • Tatum O'NealMarie Harmon
    • Brett CullenDonald Currie

    Recommendations

    • 75

      ReelViews

      The three leads provide convincing performances, with Dakota Fanning being the standout.
    • 70

      The Hollywood Reporter

      The vigor and pace is electric, and the movie features three showy performances by Kristen Stewart, Dakota Fanning and Michael Shannon.
    • 70

      Variety

      A conventionally enjoyable making-and-breaking-of-the-band saga.
    • 70

      Village Voice

      In The Runaways' first hour, there's a guttural pleasure to be had in riding waves of rock-movie cliché spiked with socio-sexual commentary. The movie is at its best when working through the contradictions of teen sex-for-sale, when it's both turn-on and creep-out.
    • 70

      Arizona Republic

      The Runaways broke new ground. And if "The Runaways" doesn't, it's still a movie worth watching - and listening to.
    • 67

      Entertainment Weekly

      The most entertaining thing about The Runaways, a highly watchable if mostly run-of-the-mill group biopic, is that its writer-director, Floria Sigismondi, has a sixth sense for how the Runaways were bad-angel icons first and a rock & roll band second.
    • 60

      Boxoffice Magazine

      Far from a perfect movie, but there are moments when it comes about as close to catching the visceral kick of the pre-iPod rock experience as any film I've ever seen.
    • 60

      Time Out

      There's lots of volume in these tunes--the soundtrack is killer--and at least everyone gets their rocks off.

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