![]() Clean beyond the ample deliberate grain, the 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer shows off the film's pleasing attention to period detail and fashions. The Runaways looks and sounds great on DVD. Subtitles: English, English for Hearing ImpairedĪlso available on Blu-ray Disc ($34.95 SRP) The Runaways is now available on DVD and Blu-ray from Apparition's video distributor, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Meanwhile, with the film's most committed performance, Michael Shannon ensures that we'll be creeped out by him for some time. ![]() Stewart, out to prove she's capable of more than the lip-biting angst of her signature franchise, puts on airs more transparently. Remarkably the right age despite her youthful appearance, Fanning, still determined to shock viewers with edgy grown-up fare, at times seems too innocent for the part, but that evidently was Currie's nature. I'm not familiar enough with the dramatized personalities to say how much verisimilitude the three lead actors bring to their parts. ![]() In that regard, it succeeds and the mindsets are easy to appreciate even if you're not crazy about the music and hard-edged attitudes. The film is less concerned with assessing its leads than in transporting us to a time and place. The Runaways doesn't exactly glamorize the foul antics of its heroines, but at the same time, the lifestyle is seen as a fun escape from challenging adolescence. However, that's practically a prerequisite for biopic treatment these days no studio is about to tell Behind the Cardigan: The Fred Rogers Story. That might be inevitable for a story about young teenaged girls.įor the most part, Jett and Currie do not appear to be positive role models. Still, The Runaways often treads a line of self-parody WidgetsĪnd plays a touch too silly and unpolished to be taken entirely seriously. Sigismondi, who wrote the screenplay from Currie's book Neon Angel, brings confidence and respect to the material, necessary ingredients for this not to feel like a half-assed behind-the-music melodrama. The film is directed by Floria Sigismondi, an Italian-Canadian woman whose best-known prior credits are music videos for the likes of David Bowie, Marilyn Manson, and Sheryl Crow. Dabbling in the self-destruction that often comes with young fame, the girls' actions threaten the future of the blossoming band. ![]() Because it wouldn't be rock 'n roll without some sex and drugs, Jett and Currie experiment with bad behavior: uppers, downers, alcohol, cigarettes, and plenty of profanity. But their unique, raw act earns notice and soon secures a record deal and international gigs. The five-girl group starts small, sharing a single hotel room and playing for free. Fowley decides that Currie fits the bill as a Brigitte Bardot-like lead singer. The teens meet one another when Jett's plan for an all-girl rock band is embraced by creepy producer Kim Fowley (Michael Shannon). Currie gets pelted with paper and food while lip-synching to David Bowie at her school's talent show. "Girls don't play electric guitar," Jett is told. Tough girls from broken Los Angeles homes, 16-year-old Joan Jett and 15-year-old Cherie Currie encounter resistance to their efforts to be musical. Fortunately, matured child actors Stewart and Fanning have that vampire series to fall back on. Still finding its footing, young distributor Apparition didn't mount the wider campaign the picture might have sustained. That performance can be chalked up less to disinterest than to disservice. New Moon wrapped filming that May and just three weeks later, Stewart and Fanning were back in front of the cameras again to make The Runaways, a movie I'm convinced could claim the record for disproportion between news coverage and theatrical attendance.Ī much-mentioned media fixture throughout the second year of Twilight film fever, The Runaways made a tiny little splash at the box office, earning back a third of its $10 million production budget from just 244 North American theaters. Which makes it conceivable for my hypothetical dialogue to have been uttered during rehearsals of the young actresses' first pairing, The Twilight Saga: New Moon. Fanning signed on as Currie in March 2009, Stewart became attached to portray iconic punk rocker Jett back in December 2008. That is how I like to imagine Kristen Stewart getting Dakota Fanning to co-star in The Runaways. "Hey, Fanning, I'm doing this Joan Jett biopic next. Theatrical Release: Ma/ Running Time: 107 Minutes / Rating: R / Songs Listĭirector: Floria Sigismondi / Writers: Floria Sigismondi (screenplay), Cherie Currie (book "Neon Angel")Ĭast: Kristen Stewart (Joan Jett), Dakota Fanning (Cherie Currie), Michael Shannon (Kim Fowley), Stella Maeve (Sandy West), Scout Taylor-Compton (Lita Ford), Alia Shawkat (Robin Robins), Riley Keough (Marie Currie), Johnny Lewis (Scottie), Tatum O'Neal (Cherie's Mom), Brett Cullen (Cherie's Dad), Brendan Sexton III (Derek), Keir O'Donnell (Rodney Bingenheimer)
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