In 1975, San Fernando Valley teen Joan Larkin reinvents herself as Joan Jett, a guitarist who wants to form an all-girl punk band. She pitches the idea to a sleazy manager, Kim Fowley, who pairs her with a drummer and then searches for a face: he finds Cherie Currie, at age 15, the perfect jailbait image for his purpose; by luck, she can sing. Two others round out the band, The Runaways. Fowley books a tour, signs them to Mercury Records, and packs them off to crowds in Japan... (Full plot summary below)
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In 1975, San Fernando Valley teen Joan Larkin reinvents herself as Joan Jett, a guitarist who wants to form an all-girl punk band. She pitches the idea to a sleazy manager, Kim Fowley, who pairs her with a drummer and then searches for a face: he finds Cherie Currie, at age 15, the perfect jailbait image for his purpose; by luck, she can sing. Two others round out the band, The Runaways. Fowley books a tour, signs them to Mercury Records, and packs them off to crowds in Japan. Seeds of conflict sprout early: Fowley puts Cherie front and center in the publicity, she's soon strung out on drugs and vodka, and jealousies arise. Without adult supervision, where can Joan and Cherie end up?
Leave your thoughts about The Runaways.
| OregonianShawn LevyA movie that tells -- or rather, circles -- the story of the band's formation and abortive career. |
| Screen InternationalDavid D'ArcyA vivid period piece, The Runaways is anything but an extended music video. |
| New York Magazine/VultureDavid EdelsteinIn patches it's agreeably lurid, but it's otherwise ho-hum. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanThe 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. |
| Us WeeklyThelma AdamsFilmed with a 1970s punk edginess, the movie recalls a time when male teachers could get away with telling girls like Joan Jett: "Girls don't play electric guitar." While some things have changed, this is an anthem to those young women who wouldn't take n |
| Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)Ken HankeProbably about as good a movie as the title band deserves. But it's also something more than that thanks to the performances. |
| BrianOrndorf.comBrian OrndorfA dim, gutless approximation of the feisty group and their brief bath in the frigid ice waters of fringe celebrity...It's all warped surface, blunted character estimation, and woeful direction. |
| CinematicalKevin KellyThese girls were, for a very short time, the Queens of Noise. Fanning's concert performance of Cherry Bomb will be ringing in your ears for days. |
| ViewLondonMatthew TurnerEnjoyable, stylishly directed rock biopic with terrific performances from Fanning, Stewart and Shannon, though the fact that it's adapted from Currie's book means that only Cherie's story is explored in any depth. |
| TheFilmFile.comDustin PutmanGets right down to the innate feeling of it all—the uncertainty of adolescence, the thrill of success, and the dark side that comes with getting it all and not having the wisdom or life experience to know when enough is enough. |
