The Runaways

R16

2010

105 mins

Directed by Floria Sigismondi
69%
55%
Drama
Music

Kristen Stewart is Joan Jett and Dakota Fanning is Cherie Currie in this film about '70s bad-girl rock band, The... More

Kristen Stewart is Joan Jett and Dakota Fanning is Cherie Currie in this film about '70s bad-girl rock band, The Runaways. This is the feature debut from music video director Floria Sigismondi (clips for Marilyn Manson, Christina Aguilera and The White Stripes).

The story follows Jett and Currie from their youth, as aspiring rock girls and Bowie fans (with Bowie hair). Jett is the serious one and has always known she wants to play music, Currie is the hot blonde recruited in a bar for her looks, and later taught how to sing.

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The Runaways | Ratings & Reviews

69_%188 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes® rating
55_%86,269 reviews
Audience score rating

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

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Variety

"The movie may be a little too tame in the end, but at its best it is just wild enough."

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The New York Times

"Its interest comes from Shannon's fierce and sadistic training scenes as Kim Fowley, and from the intrinsic qualities of the performances by Stewart and Fanning, who bring more to their characters than the script provides."

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Roger Ebert

"A great looking film with a rock'n'roll vibe."

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New Zealand Herald

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

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Hollywood Reporter

"Based on singer Cherie Currie's memoir Neon Angel, The Runaways is a pretty good, but maybe slightly cock-eyed account of the birth, life and implosion of the world's first all- women rock band."

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