name | The Runaways |
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director | Floria Sigismondi |
producer | |
writer | Floria Sigismondi |
starring | |
music | Lillian Berlin |
cinematography | Benoît Debie |
editing | Richard Chew |
distributor | Apparition |
released | |
runtime | 106 minutes |
country | |
language | English |
budget | $10 million |
gross | $4,678,222 }} |
Joan Jett (Kristen Stewart) is a bisexual teenager who also dreams of rock stardom. At a club one night, she meets record producer Kim Fowley (Michael Shannon) and talks about starting an all-girl rock band. Kim is interested and introduces Joan to Sandy West (Stella Maeve), a drummer. Joan and Sandy become friends and start jamming when Kim suggests that they recruit a hot blonde in the vein of Brigitte Bardot. Kim and Joan comb Los Angeles' clubs to look for hot blondes and discover Cherie. They ask if she wants to be in a band and she accepts. Then they tell her to come to auditions in a trailer park in the valley.
Cherie learns Suzi Quatro's "Fever" and goes to audition, but the band is disappointed at her choice of song. Instead, Kim and Joan write "Cherry Bomb", on the spot, for Cherie to audition with. Cherie sings it and, after improving, is part of the band, named the Runaways, joined by Lita Ford (Scout Taylor-Compton) on lead guitar and Robin (Alia Shawkat) on bass.
The Runaways are soon signed to Mercury Records and release a hit album. Due to the album's success, they travel to Japan to play a concert. After their performance, Lita throws magazines at Cherie that have pictures of her. Cherie is shocked because she thought the articles were to cover the whole band. As Lita, Cherie, and Joan argue, crazy fans break through the window and chase the girls out of the building. Cherie's drug problems become worse. She overdoses in the hotel, collapses in an elevator and is sent to the hospital. Upon arriving back in the United States, Cherie begins to abuse her alcoholic father's painkillers.
At the studio recording their next album, Cherie has a breakdown and refuses to play. Lita insults her and though Joan defends her, Cherie quits the band. Joan is outraged, and the Runaways are finished. Cherie returns home while Joan starts her own band, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts. Cherie collapses again in a phone booth in a supermarket parking lot. At the hospital, her sister, Marie, visits her and tells her to get her stuff straight.
A few years later, Cherie has landed a 9 to 5 job. She hears Joan's cover of "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" on the radio and calls the station, where Joan is visiting for interviews. After an awkward conversation between Joan, Cherie, and radio host Rodney Bingenheimer (Keir O'Donnell), Cherie says her goodbyes and continues working, smiling when Joan's next song, "Crimson and Clover", comes on the radio.
Note Robin is a fictional character created for the movie as Jackie Fox, the original bassist, refused usage of her name.
The Runaways was released on DVD and Blu-ray in the United States on July 20, 2010.
name | Music From The Motion Picture The Runaways |
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type | Soundtrack |
artist | Various Artists |
cover | The Runaways soundtrack.jpg |
released | March 23, 2010 |
recorded | 1966–2009 |
genre | Hard rock, rock |
length | 50:00 |
label | Atlantic |
misc | }} |
Music from the Motion Picture The Runaways was released on March 23, 2010.
{{tracklist | extra_column = Artist |- | title1 = Roxy Roller | extra1 = Nick Gilder | length1 = 2:49 |- | title2 = The Wild One | extra2 = Suzi Quatro | length2 = 2:51 |- | title3 = It's a Man's Man's Man's World | note3 = Live | extra3 = MC5 | length3 = 5:13 |- | title4 = Rebel Rebel | extra4 = David Bowie | length4 = 4:31 |- | title5 = Cherry Bomb | extra5 = Dakota Fanning | length5 = 2:19 |- | title6 = Hollywood | extra6 = The Runaways | length6 = 2:58 |- | title7 = California Paradise | extra7 = Dakota Fanning | length7 = 2:59 |- | title8 = You Drive Me Wild | extra8 = The Runaways | length8 = 3:22 |- | title9 = Queens of Noise | extra9 = Dakota Fanning & Kristen Stewart | length9 = 3:13 |- | title10 = Dead End Justice | extra10 = Kristen Stewart & Dakota Fanning | length10 = 6:36 |- | title11 = I Wanna Be Your Dog | extra11 = The Stooges | length11 = 3:13 |- | title12 = I Wanna Be Where the Boys Are | note12 = Live in Japan | extra12 = The Runaways | length12 = 2:57 |- | title13 = Pretty Vacant | extra13 = Sex Pistols | length13 = 3:17 |- | title14 = Don't Abuse Me | extra14 = Joan Jett | length14 = 3:37 }}
The film also includes "Lady Grinning Soul" by David Bowie, "Fujiyama Mama" by Wanda Jackson, "Do You Wanna Touch Me" by Gary Glitter, "Gimme Danger" by Iggy & The Stooges, "Vincent" by Don McLean, "I Love Rock 'n' Roll", "Bad Reputation" and "I Want You" by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts. Kristen Stewart also covers the Runaways' "I Love Playin' With Fire" in the film. The film included 34 credited songs, leaving 20 out of the official soundtrack, and did not have an official composer.
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