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- 2010
- R
- Apparition
- 1 h 46 m
- 2010
- R
- Apparition
- 1 h 46 m
Summary The film follows two friends, Joan Jett and Cherie Currie, 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. Joan and Cherie fall under the Svengali-like influence of rock impresario Kim Fowley, played by Michael Shannon, who turns the g...
Directed By: Floria Sigismondi
Written By: Cherie Currie, Floria Sigismondi
- 2010
- R
- Apparition
- 1 h 46 m
- 2010
- R
- Apparition
- 1 h 46 m
The Runaways
65
8.1
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Summary The film follows two friends, Joan Jett and Cherie Currie, 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. Joan and Cherie fall under the Svengali-like influence of rock impresario Kim Fowley, played by Michael Shannon, who turns the g...
Directed By: Floria Sigismondi
Written By: Cherie Currie, Floria Sigismondi
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 36 Critic Reviews
65
72% Positive
26 Reviews
26 Reviews
28% Mixed
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 36 Critic Reviews
65
72% Positive
26 Reviews
26 Reviews
28% Mixed
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
A rich and surprisingly old-fashioned musical biopic, The Runaways has neither the bloat nor the blather of your average Hollywood treatment of stars on the rise.
It is a well-acted and vivid re-creation of a dark, downbeat era when "girls don't play electric guitar," and you had to be someone pretty tough and pretty special to try it.
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 109 User Ratings
8.1
79% Positive
86 Ratings
86 Ratings
18% Mixed
20 Ratings
20 Ratings
3% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 109 User Ratings
8.1
79% Positive
86 Ratings
86 Ratings
18% Mixed
20 Ratings
20 Ratings
3% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
This flick rocks, and I mean that in every way possible. As someone who lived the '70's it was a blast to see the kinds of girls I knew doing things that the mommies of today (who did it) REALLY don't want their daughters to see. Kristen Stewart bored me to tears in Twilight flicks, but she kicked ass as Joan Jett, and Dakota Fanning has never done a bad role in her entire life. Playing Cherrie Currie at 15, while 15, was an awsome performance that Dakota can notch-up in her amazing career arc. Michael Shannon put himself on the map with me forever as Kim Fowley, and I love him in Boardwalk Empire. The Seventies came back to life, with bisexual girls exploding in freedom and creativity while being the wild stoners they actually were. The interview with Cherrie Currie today (unbelievably hot at 50!) was great too. SEE THIS FLICK!
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The three leads provide convincing performances, with Dakota Fanning being the standout.
Say what you will about the Runaways – they never played it safe. The movie does.
There's lots of volume in these tunes--the soundtrack is killer--and at least everyone gets their rocks off.
In patches it's agreeably lurid, but it's otherwise ho-hum.
It's a long way to the top (if you wanna rock & roll). The story of the origin, glory days and fall of one of the most famous rock girl groups in the genre, in the crazed 70s. The plot, with all its ups and downs, is attractive enough for the melomaniac at heart.
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The Runaways is a nice little film about a rock band spiraling out of control. Let's face facts though, we've seen this movie a million times before (Velvet Goldmine, Almost Famous, That Thing You Do) and this one plays it very much by the numbers. Still, it works well enough for a pleasant night's viewing.
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“The Runaways” is so very meh. Maybe if the actors were given any good dialog, they could have done something with it. I think there is a good story buried in this thing somewhere, but the writers just didn't spend enough time digging to unearth it. I give it a D, just don’t bother.
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This movie confused the definitively passive Cherie Currie with anything even closely resembling a protagonist. Fanning's performance was good, but the story was miswritten, and should have focused on the character who actually drove the action, made the decisions, and who was in every way the hero: Joan Jett. The conflict was unclear, Currie gave us nothing to root for, and it fell back on the typical story of a rock star brought low by the lifestyle. The movie was soft-spoken and meandering; completely at odds with the hard-nosed grit of its subject matter. There's a good story somewhere in the history of the Runaways, but this wasn't it.
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Awards
Teen Choice Awards
• 3 Nominations
MTV Movie + TV Awards
• 1 Nomination
Online Film & Television Association
• 1 Nomination
