The Runaways

Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning star in this music-fueled story of the ground-breaking, all girl, teenage rock band of the 1970s: The Runaways. The film follows two friends, Joan Jett and Cherie Curie, 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 group into an outrageous success and a family of misfits. With its tough-chick image and raw talent, the band quickly earns a name for itself - and so do its two leads: Joan is the band' s pure rock' n' roll heart, while Cherie, with her Bowie-Bardot looks, is the sex kitten. Written and directed by Floria Sigismondi, the film chronicles Joan and Cherie's tumultuous relationship on and off stage, as the band starts to break out.

A rough and tumble coming-of-age drama about the '70s teenage band the Runaways. Widely believed at the time to have been a novelty actformed by producer Kim Fowley, who thought the notion of five teenage girls dressed in leather and lingerie performing rock and roll music washighly marketable, the truth of the band's origin is actually that the individual parts that made up the whole, began with the most pure rock 'n' rollintentions. Despite the apparent "jailbait on the run" gimmick pushed by their manager, the girls in the band were proficient at playing theirinstruments and wrote or co-wrote most of the band's material and, as later became obvious, were serious about their music.