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In adapting Cherie Currie's memoir, Neon Angel, Floria Sigismondi focuses on three figures. Sensing imminent stardom, Sunset Strip impresario Kim Fowley (Michael Shannon) brings together blond Bowie fanatic Cherie (Dakota Fanning) with raven-haired rocker Joan Jett (Kristen Stewart). Manufactured bands weren't a novel phenomenon in the 1970s, but the Runaways wrote their own songs and played their own instruments, paving the way for the all-girl outfits to come. With a mother (Tatum O'Neal) in Singapore and a perpetually drunk father, Cherie and her sister, Marie (Riley Keough), must fend for themselves. When the group heads out on tour, there's no adult supervision, leading to drinking and drugging from California to Japan, where the crowds go wild, but just as they're taking off in public, they're falling apart in private. Cherie tires of Fowley's tough-love tactics, while her bandmates resent the focus on their sexpot singer. The best thing about Sigismondi's film is that her risky casting choices pay off: Fanning leaves her little-girl roles behind just as easily as Stewart breaks free from her Twilight shackles, so it's too bad Jett has no back story and that the other players, particularly Sandy West (Stella Maeve) and Lita Ford (Scout Taylor-Compton), don't register more as distinct personalities. Shannon's Fowley, on the other hand, steals the show with his profane performance. For a film dedicated to female empowerment, that may not have been the director's intention, but as Fowley says, "This isn't about women's lib; this is about women's libido." --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning star as Joan Jett and Cherie Currie in the music-fueled coming-of-age story of the groundbreaking, all-girl rock band, THE RUNAWAYS. They fall under the Svengali-like influence of rock impresario Kim Fowley (Michael Shannon, Pearl Harbor),who turns the rebellious Southern California kids into a rock group with outrageous success. With its tough-chick image and raw talent, the band quickly earns a name for itself and so do its two leads: Joan is the band's pure rock 'n' roll heart, while Cherie, with her Bowie-Bardot looks, is the sex kitten.
SPECIAL FEATURES: Go on the road with THE RUNAWAYS with a rockin' commentary with Joan Jett, Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning and a behind-the-scenes look at making the film.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Soo good just missed more they could have done,
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This review is from: The Runaways (DVD)
I thought this movie was great, being a runaways and joan jett fan. Only thing i found wrong with it really was they didnt spend enough time showing that they did play a lot more, and a lot more people were into them. It seemed to shoot from idea to band to stardom to dead too fast. But i did think both kristen and dakota did great, and having joan and cherie on set definatly helped getting a good story across.Would definatly recommend this film to any rock music fan, and especially anyone who has been a band and had a little bit of stardom.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Meilleurs film biographique,
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This review is from: The Runaways (DVD)
Ce film est le meilleur film sur une parti de l'histoir du Rock N Roll, best performance of Dakota Fanning and Kristen stewart , best movie on DVD 2010
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3.0 out of 5 stars
meanders all over the place and fades poorly,
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This review is from: The Runaways (DVD)
If you're into rock, glam rock or punk rock music, this is probably a must see just to see how the movie approaches a band's career from beginning to end. The performances by Kristin Stewart who seems to be channeling even Joan Jett's body language, Dakota Fanning (who knew she could sing!) and Michael Shannon as in a completely over-the-top performance as the notorious and legendary band manager/music producer Kim Fowley are spectacular.The movie itself features a heck of a lot of boring drawnout scenes especially the club scenes, the drug taking that overtakes the last third of the movie which, if you get bored by then just fast-forward, and the "family" scenes involving only Cherie Currie's family (starring an unrecognizable and gratuitous Tatum O'Neal). It seems the other band members did not have families as we never see theirs at all during the entire story. The stuff on the road is a drag because, frankly, if you've ever been in a band or hung out with a band, its just is. I'm sure it was put into the movie to show the loneliness of the road hence the drug taking to relieve the boredom. Then again it was the '70s and the band were taking drugs anyway back when they were at "home" in California. For the acting alone and for the extra on the behind-the-scenes where the real Cherie Currie shows up and looks simply stunning now 30+ years later and not a rock 'n' roll casualty (thank the rock gods for that) this is worth a rental. Having said that I did not get the whole Runaways as pioneers for female rock. Maybe they were but I grew up in the '70s and never gave the Runaways a thought. I was always more attracted by the females who emerged from the British punk or New Wave scene like Poly Styrene in X-Ray Spex, Chrissie Hynde, the Mo-Dettes, Delta 5, Dolly Mixture...and I even had a Raincoats or Slits single amongst all that, Siouxsie. I always thought the DIY punk ethos had more of an influence on these females to pick up a guitar than the Runaways ever did.
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