The Runaways
This film revoles two friends, Joan Jett and Cherie Currie, as they rise from rebellious Southern California teens to rock stars of the legendary group that paved the way for future generations of all-girl bands. They fall under the Svengali-like influence of rock impresario Kim Fowley, who turns the group into an outrageous success and a family of misfits.
29 May 1989, Los Angeles, California, USA
21 February 1980, Staten Island, New York City, New York, USA
5 November 1963, Los Angeles, California, USA
17 July 1956, USA
7 August 1974, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
3 February 1956, Lebanon, Oregon, USA
October 07, 2016
A full-throttle joyride through fame's treacherous trenches.
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
Aside from following the clichéd (if real) storyline, The Runaways is plagued by something of a split personality, thanks to its two young stars.
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.
April 09, 2010
There's a flinty integrity in this movie's look at the rock grind, and Stewart and Fanning are intensely watchable.
July 06, 2010
The Runaways is cool, but the Runaways were just so much cooler.
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 09, 2010
Excess is abundant in photographer and music-video director Floria Sigismondi's energetic debut.
April 08, 2012
Fanning makes Currie's fame- and pharmaceutical-fueled transformation/liberation at once exhilarating and terrifying.
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.
September 08, 2010
The result is an entertaining mess: lively and stylish, but frustratingly inconsequential.
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

