The Runaways
2010 Directed by Floria Sigismondi
Synopsis
It's 1975 and they're about to explode.
The Runaways follows two friends, Joan Jett (Kristen Stewart) and Cherie Currie (Dakota Fanning), as they rise from rebellious Southern California kids to rock stars of the now legendary group that paved the way for future generations of girl bands.
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People who saw the Twilight films forget that Kristen Stewart can actually act. They see the monotone, sluggish, lifeless persona she portrays and judge her solely on that bland character while clearly forgetting she gave such amazing performances in Panic Room, Speak, and Welcome to the Riley's just to name a few. This should remind everyone that she is one of the most talented actresses working today.
Both Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning give terrific portrayals as the famed rockers. They literally become Joan Jett and Dakota Fanning. You almost forget you're watching two actresses act. You also get a near show stealing performance by the always fantastic Michael Shannon. While the story is pretty basic rise-to-fall tale in rock and roll, it is told with such style and elegance that you can't help but enjoy the ride.
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Dakota Fanning and Kristen Stewart take the main protagonists roles as Cherie Currie and guitarist Joan Jett in a biopic of seventies all-girl rock band "The Runaways".
Success in Japan apparently back in the day,I had heard the name but new very little about them. Still don't. As biopics go this is possibly one of the lamest going. I know the times were different but making Dakota Fanning look like a dirty streetwalker was never really going to appeal to many. Kristen Stewart on the other hand always looks like a dirty streetwalker so I'm sure the Twi-hards flocked to see her cheat on Edward with a little girl. One annoyingly catchy song besides, this was truly forgettable. -
A watchable enough rock biopic despite, (or perhaps because of?), the subjects being completely unknown to me. 6/10.
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Twan shyly told me this was his favourite film of 2010. He also told me he was a "lyrical gangster" and he was "as serious as cancer" when he told me "rhythm was a dancer."?
My GF liked Kirsten Stewart in this against her expectations, post Twilight. The blonde one was grand too, but, it's a bit of a boring story TBH.
Shannon was looking sexy. As for the girls, too "jail bait" for my liking.
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"The Runaways is one of the most underrated films of the year. It's messy, entertaining, funny, willd, well-acted & shows how CRAZY the 70's were. The leads both Kristen Stewart as Joan Jett and Dakota Fanning as Cherie Currie gives their best performances of their young career so far. Stewart played as the always certain and positive Joan Jett, same body language and just same Joan Jett, great job by Stewart. Fanning is amazing as the drug addict, corset wearing sexy Cherie Currie. Fanning proves here in her performance that she's been growing up as an actress and beginning to take more mature roles, this is easily best performance, slightly better than her eariler role (I Am Sam) and her recent…
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The Runaways is not nearly as wild as it should be and lacks depth, its paper thin story leaving the audience wondering far too much about what isn't being told. On a positive note, the film captures the look and feel of the mid-seventies, with solid performances from Stewart, Fanning and Shannon.
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Great movie. My favorite performance by Kristen Stewart as Joan Jett. It is a real shame that this film was a failure at the box office because it was very enjoyable. Excellent soundtrack as well, of course.
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Nearly weighed down by the assumed necessities of the musician biopic, Floria Sigismondi’s tolerable script gets reformed by her own hands into the definition of a Rock n’ Roll picture. Girls desire to be boys while toiling under the desires of a boy/girl who wants them to rock like boys as they sensualize like girls. Tearing down society’s walls of gender, age, and sexuality are rock music’s day-to-day, so it is fitting that the topic fuels The Runaways. Also a stroke of rebellion is the casting of Kristen Stewart (though not a teenager, certainly the modern every-girl thanks to Twilight) and Dakota Fanning (giving her most sexualized, yet worst, performance) in the leads. By having them raunch-up their girlie personas,…
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And now I want a band badly. Nice easy watched flick about Joan Jett and Cherie Currie and their love-child, The Runaways.
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Floria Sigismondi, een naam als een frisse zomerbries en een reputatie als een klok. De Italiaans-Amerikaanse performanceartieste/videoclipregisseuse/modefotografe is al geruime tijd een graag geziene gast op catwalks en modedefilés en de groten der aarde deden al beroep op haar voor buitenissige en exuberante videoclips. Bekijk maar eens haar clips voor Marilyn Manson ('Beautiful people) en The White Stripes ('Blue orchid') en je zult versteld staan van haar visueel vernuft en eigenwijze mise-en-scène. Voor haar langspeeldebuut kiest Sigismondi voor een dankbaar onderwerp: 'The Runaways', de formatie rond legendarische punkrock-chick Joan Jett die halverwege de jaren zeventig mee aan de wieg van de punkrock stond.
Een stevige portie glamrock, de oeverloze excessen van de vroege seventies en vijf bitsige grieten, goed van…
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This movie is actually pretty dreadful. All stars are for the excellent Michael Shannon channelling James Woods as Kim Fowley. It's a terrible biopic. It's a terrible music biopic, it's a terrible coming of age story, its a terrible punk movie, it's a terrible feminist movie, it's a terrible movie about the exploitation of teenagers.
Runaways is a series of vignettes that offer no real narrative linkage beyond the general assumption that time is moving forwards. The story is completely lost in time and incredibly there didn't seem to be any mention of the word PUNK throughout the entire interminable 100 minute runtime.
I can't imagine what the target audience was for this film; Twi-hards? Boys in to punk chicks?…
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Really liked it when it when came out. Granted I didn't know much about movies then as I do now (kind of a genius), but still pretty underrated.
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Not a bad flick at all. Dakota Fanning and Kristen Stewart both provided some good performances, and Michael Shannon was fucking awesome, as always. Not a movie I would go out of my way to watch repeatedly, but not a bad way to kill some time.
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Ah, YES. Why do i love this one so much? Hmmm
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I'm always interested in rock biography and biopics for some reason... even when I don't have any interest in the artist in question from a musical perspective. I found this a bit wishy-washy but nihilistic at the same time... good performances though with brave musical performances.