The Runaways

2010
12
1 Std. 46 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,5/10

51.588

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Dakota Fanning and Kristen Stewart in The Runaways (2010)

A chronicle of the groundbreaking Los Angeles band The Runaways, who formed in 1975 and were led by teenagers Joan Jett (Stewart) and Cherie Currie (Fanning).

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Ein biografischer Film über die Teenager-Rockband The Runaways aus den 1970er Jahren, die ausschließlich aus Mädchen bestand. Auch die Beziehung zwischen den Bandmitgliedern Cherie Currie un... Alles lesenEin biografischer Film über die Teenager-Rockband The Runaways aus den 1970er Jahren, die ausschließlich aus Mädchen bestand. Auch die Beziehung zwischen den Bandmitgliedern Cherie Currie und Joan Jett wird untersucht.Ein biografischer Film über die Teenager-Rockband The Runaways aus den 1970er Jahren, die ausschließlich aus Mädchen bestand. Auch die Beziehung zwischen den Bandmitgliedern Cherie Currie und Joan Jett wird untersucht.

Regie
- Floria Sigismondi
Drehbuch
- Floria Sigismondi
- Cherie Currie
Hauptbesetzung

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,5/10

51.588

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Regie
- Floria Sigismondi
Drehbuch
- Floria Sigismondi
- Cherie Currie
Hauptbesetzung

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

Auszeichnungen
- 6 Nominierungen insgesamt

Wissenswertes
Joan Jett was irritated with the fact that Kristen Stewart was constantly in leather pants. She stated in the Blu-ray commentary that jeans would have been more accurate because she never wore leather pants. However, there are many pictures of Joan Jett from this period in which she is wearing leather pants.

Patzer
When copies of a Japanese magazine are distributed to the band members, the cover is on the wrong side, as in a western magazine. Japanese magazine covers are on the opposite side, as publications are all right to left.

Zitate
Kim Fowley: Dog shit! Urine-stained dog shit! Rock 'n' roll is a blood sport, a sport of men. It's for the people in the dark, the death cats, the masturbators, the outcasts who have no voice, no way of saying "I hate this world, my father's a faggot, fuck you, fuck authority - I want an orgasm!" Now, growl! Moan! This ain't women's lib, kiddies - this is women's libido! I wanna see the scratch marks down their fucking backs! Now, do it again. Again. Like your boyfriend just fucked your sister in your parent's bed. Like you want a fucking orgasm!

Alternative Versionen
The UK release was cut, this film was originally shown to the BBFC in an unfinished version. The BBFC advised the distributor that the film was likely to receive an 18 classification but that the requested 15 classification could be obtained by making cuts in one sequence, to remove sight of two teenage girls sniffing glue. When the finished version of the film was submitted, all sight of glue sniffing had been removed and the film was classified 15.

Verbindungen
Featured in The Tonight Show with Jay Leno: Folge #18.8 (2010)

Soundtracks
Roxy Roller
Written by Nick Gilder and James McCullouch
Performed by Nick Gilder
Courtesy of Capitol Records
Under license from EMI Film & Television Music

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Ausgewählte Rezension

8/10

history narrowed

Oh yes, 'The Runaways' is a good movie. Also for those who aren't aware that it's about the first all-female group in history of rock.

The plot narrows itself down to Kim Fowley (manager), Cherie Currie (lead singer) and Joan Jett (rythm-guitarist). Which is not wrong, but makes that you miss out on a lot of other interesting historical facts about this great Californian rock-band.

About lead-guitarist Lita Ford, for instance. She and Jett were the only band-members able to continue their career in rock-music after the Runaways split up.

About bass-player Jackie Fox, who left the band out of frustration for getting badly paid. Fox became a lawyer in the American music business instead.

The great thing about the Runaways is the magnificent cooperation between their two renowned guitarists Joan Jett and Lita Ford. Between Jett's earsplitting rhythms and Ford's virtuoso lead. This cooperation really earned 'The Runaways' a place in rock history.

Further 'The Runaways' were the first all-female rock-group at a time when people didn't even think about such a thing. And they also played their rock in a period when pop-music's trend was very soft, greatly influenced by 'The Eagles'.

By the way, this film hardly contains any 'Runaways'-music. For this you'd better turn to internet or to a CD. To 'The Runaways live in Japan', for instance, a CD recording their live-concert from 1977 in Japan. At that time 'The Runaways' peaked in a country where they were hugely popular.