The Runaways
Directed by Floria Sigismondi
Joan Jett and Cherie Currie, two rebellious teenagers from Southern California, become the frontwomen for The Runaways -- the now-legendary group that paved the way for future generations of female rockers. Under the Svengali-like influence of impresario Kim Fowley, the band becomes a huge success. From TMDB
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Cherie Currie praised Fanning for her performance in the film, but noted that a number of events included in her book were not included in the film. She said "this is [the filmmakers'] movie. This is their portrayal. This is their version of the story. My book is a totally different story. My book is the real story. This is just a lighter kind of flash of what The Runaways were for a specific amount of time. How do you possibly take two and a half years and make it a film that's an hour and a half, and make it even closely touch what was truly going on? It’s an epic. The true story is an epic, and that’s just not anything that could have been done on film." Joan Jett felt that the film…
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60 of 112 · most liked firstMy buddy's band was put together by Kim Fowley. He has held a grudge against Joan Jett for the Runaways movie. He knew Kim was a weird piece of shit but said he was treated well. One day I said "might it be that you were not a 17 YO girl?" That finally resonated with him.
unlabelledView post →Kristen Stewart dans le rôle de Joan Jett dans le film The Runaways, réalisé par Floria Sigismondi, 2010. Il raconte l'histoire du groupe de rock féminin des années 1970, The Runaways, dont Joan Jett est l'une des membres emblématiques. #KristenStewart #JoanJett #TheRunaways #FloriaSigismondi
unlabelledView post →And we're off, with MOVIE NO. 16 in our chronological tour through the 1980s in American film, with an early look in the "kids today!" sweepstakes - it's Jodie Foster, Scott Baio, the Runaways' Cherie Currie, and Randy Quaid in Adrian Lyne's first movie - from late Feb. 1980, it's FOXES!
unlabelledView post →#augustmoviechallenge 8//10 - Electric guitar in a movie The Runaways (2010) #sassawards #moviesky #filmsky #actorsky
unlabelledView post →The 15 Best Kristen Stewart Movies, Ranked: metacritic.com/pictures/bes... #13 - The Runaways [65] - "The vigor and pace is electric, and the movie features three showy performances by Kristen Stewart, Dakota Fanning and Michael Shannon." —Kirk Honeycutt, The Hollywood Reporter
unlabelledView post →I just found DU-BEAT-EO, the 80s movie with Ray Sharkey as a drugged out editor trying to edit the unfinished 1979 Runaways movie starring contractually-obligated Joan Jett and some ringers as the Runaways and even if you're a Jett or Runaways completionist you don't need to see it. It sucks.
unlabelledView post →Hey, if you want to have a really fun time, I highly recommend you watch THE RUNAWAYS (2010) with the Joan Jett, Kristen Stewart, and Dakota Fanning commentary track going. It's like watching the movie with all three of them. Jett tells you how it really went down from her POV, they mock themselves.
unlabelledView post →I am pretty sure that she was at a press screening of that movie The Runaways that I was at. I also remember suspecting she was stoned to the bone, but I can't remember why!
unlabelledView post →#MlevelSongs #MusicChallenge #MusicSky #DavidsMonthOfMusic ...by an artist who used to be in a band "Let's Do It," Joan Jett (late of the Runaways) & Paul Westerberg (late of Replacements), from the "Tank Girl" film soundtrack) www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOFH...
unlabelledView post →Documentaries And Movies About *Hardcore* And *Punk* - Part 2. Source: [Ox Fanzine](https://www.ox-fanzine.de/), Nr. 171\ The original language is given in [brackets] in front of the title (`[eng]`=English, `[deu]`=German) **Check out the post ["Punks on Film - [Resources]"](https://lemmy.ca/post/7303181) for more Punk-related films! (I've made sure none of the films listed here are already included in that post.)** --- ## `[eng]` The Runaways (2010) >Joan Jett and Cherie Currie, two…
unlabelledView post →my comfort movie The Runaways is also on Criterion but with no subtitles wahhhh
unlabelledView post →Cherry Bomb by The Runaways, which also happens to be one of the only things I will sing at karaoke. ALT: If you made a horror movie, what extremely upbeat pop song would you want slowed down and creepified to play in the trailer?
unlabelledView post →From my recent watch history that people might like: Speed Racer (2008) - "Go Speed Racer" Last Breath (2025) - Down The Greatest Beer Run Ever (2022) - 3rd week in a row Look Back (2024) - Top animated movie The Running Man (1987) The Runaways (2010) Wolfwalkers (2020) So Damn Easy Going (2022)
unlabelledView post →Someone already mentioned HOCUS POCUS and I thought I'd second it and remind everyone Kenny Ortega directed that fine film and one of Kenny Ortega's earliest jobs was teaching the Runaways how to move around and look cool onstage!
unlabelledView post →What did Cat consume today? Two kinds of cereal Domino's Pepperoni Pizza and fries Coca-Cola Country Ma'am cookies Some Doug Moench/Gene Colan Batman stories Episodes of THE TWILIGHT ZONE and SKELETON CREW The movie THE RUNAWAYS for the who knows how many timesth this year.
unlabelledView post →What was your #childhoodcinema The Walker Theater in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. It closed in 1988. Three memories: 1. 1966 Waiting in line for the Batman movie 2. 1973 Kicked out at 6PM during a showing of all 5 Planet of the Apes movies because I was under 18 3. 1975 The Runaways (Joan Jett) perform
unlabelledView post →#NowPlaying on Mad Wasp XS Show 294 As Featured in the Film - Guardians Of The Galaxy The Runaways - Cherry Bomb #MWXS #MadWaspRadio @madwaspradiomwr.bsky.social the very best in advert free music – accept no substitutes!! madwaspradio.com
unlabelledView post →Yes! And Cherie Currie, lead singer of The Runaways. That's a time capsule, that movie.
unlabelledView post →Documentaries And Movies About *Hardcore* And *Punk* - Part 2. cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/6401176 > Source: [Ox Fanzine](https://www.ox-fanzine.de/), Nr. 171\ > The original language is given in [brackets] in front of the title (`[eng]`=English, `[deu]`=German) > > **Check out the post ["Punks on Film - [Resources]"](https://lemmy.ca/post/7303181) for more Punk-related films! (I've made sure none of the films listed here are already included in that post.)** > > --- > > ##…
unlabelledView post →It’s just Kristen Stewart portraying iconic people in her films: as Joan Jett in ‘The Runaways’, 2010. as Jean Seberg in ‘Seberg’, 2019. as Diana Spencer in ‘Spencer’, 2021. Coming up: as Susan Sontag in ‘Sontag’, 2024/25.
unlabelledView post →You want to feel old? It’s been longer between now and THE RUNAWAYS movie than between the movie and when the Runaways played their final concert.
unlabelledView post →Movie #2 tonight from the Criterion Channel's Girl Bands! collection is THE RUNAWAYS. It's easy to take for granted how great Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning are, no matter the role.
unlabelledView post →Dakota Fanning as Cherie Currie in 'The Runaways' movie
unlabelledView post →I thought this movie was about The Runaways… I mean runaway daughters….not 30 year old women just dealing with idiots. #MonochromeCreeps #RunawayDaughters
unlabelledView post →Japanese high school girls who are Runaways fans waiting for, then greeting the Runaways as the band arrives by car outside a Tokyo venue for a performance. In the film, there's a voice over where the girls discuss their favorite members of the band. Mostly Cherie, pronounced "Cherry."
unlabelledView post →Young dude does a dangerous trick with another young dude riding behind him on a motorcycle, footage of bosozoku (motorcycle gang) night ride from the Runaways 1977 Japan tour performance film.
unlabelledView post →So anyway yesterday I watched both DRACULA A.D. 1972 (1972) and THE RUNAWAYS (2010) and they're essentially both the same movie... No. I'm kidding. They're nothing alike. Well, they share the theme "1970s youth culture decadence" and both have villains that are super tall guys.
unlabelledView post →Help me pick tonight's movie from the DVDs I got at the library, please. A - Automata B - In Bruges C - Wing Commander D - The Runaways E - Tangerine I've seen In Bruges once before and also saw Wing Commander in the theater as a kid
unlabelledView post →#TheRunaways F*CKING CINEMA. A parte de ser muy gay con Kristen Stewart como Joan Jett. Diosas. Peliculón 🏳️🌈💫 letterboxd.com/film/the-run...
unlabelledView post →What movie was it that I watched recently that I was like "oh this is like They Live"? OH YEAH Josie and the Pussycats! They Live meets The Runaways meets Airheads. Magnificent.
unlabelledView post →#Interestingly Hollywood degenerate Kim Fowley was co-producer on the session (and was Paxton’s roommate at the time.) He would become infamous some years later, famously managing The Runaways. Here's a clip of Michael Shannon playing him in the 2010 film The Runaways. #KimFowley #OneHitWondered
unlabelledView post →She'd still need a dialect coach, though. Joan Jett was 16 when she and Sandy West founded the Runaways and she was just 20 when they broke up. If this movie is made in the 70s? Weird to have a teenage Callisto versus grown up X-Men. Or even as Lila Cheney, galactic superstar.
unlabelledView post →Mine is still hooked up, cos too much stuff is not available streaming. That said, Prey For Rock'n'Roll with Gina Gershon, Lori Petty & Drea DeMatteo, among others. But someone would have to give me the disc as I loaned mine out & never got it back. I might pair it with the Runaways movie.
unlabelledView post →Whenever someone tries to use Twilight as their "har har Kristen Stewart can't act" justification, I think of this movie and The Runaways and laugh at their shit taste.
unlabelledView post →Mar. 19, 2010: Rock biopic The Runaways premiered. Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning star as Joan Jett and Cherie Currie, telling the story of the pioneering 1970s all-female band. Real-life bassist Jackie Fox didn’t participate, so the movie replaced her with a fictional character named “Robin.”
unlabelledView post →This version of Kristen Stewart accurately depicts Runaways-era Jett circa 1975-77. By 78-79 she’d given up flares for the most part in favor of Levi’s 505s like the Ramones. The leather pants as depicted in the movie didn’t come about until after the Runaways broke up.
unlabelledView post →#QuickSidenote Kim Fowley was a relentless hustler/impresario… and had become quite infamous with his management of The Runaways. Here's a clip of Michael Shannon playing him in the 2010 film The Runaways. #KimFowley #TheRunaways #OneHitWondered
unlabelledView post →*Not in a filthy trailer as depicted in the 2010 movie THE RUNAWAYS, which is filled with inaccuracies and mythologizing. But still entertaining.
unlabelledView post →when michael shannon turned up as Kim Fowley in the Runaways movie I remember thinking, wait,,, you mean that's NOT kim fowley? seriously though
unlabelledView post →On Tuesday, Aug 12th we're watching The Runaways (2010, 1:46) The zoom and download links are now posted at http://cinema.tion.ca for you to join in. Pre-drinking will start before 6, and we'll start the movie around 7pm Eastern. #cinema_tion_ca
unlabelledView post →This scene was not in my gay awakening movie The Runaways (2010)
unlabelledView post →I think she's been done wrong by casting at times too. That snow white movie just didn't vibe with her vibe. But she was perfect for playing Joan Jett in The Runaways.
unlabelledView post →January 24, 2010 (L-R) Riley Keough, Kristen Stewart, Dakota Fanning and Joan Jett at The Sundance Film Festival in Park City, UT. In the 2010 film "The Runaways’, Riley played Marie Currie (Cherrie's twin), Kristen played Joan Jett, and Dakota played Cherrie Currie. Photo by Bob Gruen
unlabelledView post →Great Film. The Runaways were one of a kind. Dakota & Kristen embraced Joan & Cherie. The Cherry 🍒 bomb 💣 performance was Oscar worthy.
unlabelledView post →Last, you can watch the Kristen Stewart/Dakota Fanning movie THE RUNAWAYS, which has a scene-stealing turn by Michael Shannon as the Peach Frankenstein. It's heavily stylized, overly one-sided, and even strangely sanitized but it looks and sounds awesome and Stewart and Fanning get the essence down.
unlabelledView post →I actually have a lot to say about that movie, the band, their real history, and frankly, about Joan Jett, who in my opinion does no come out of the story of The Runaways looking great. Whatever, I'll save it for another day.
unlabelledView post →In the movie Jaws, the understudy for the eponymous, robotic Great White Shark was a 16lb turkey named Lindzee who spent much of her downtime listening to The Runaways in her trailer, and had to be rescued twice due to her insistence on wearing combat boots. #TurkeyFacts
unlabelledView post →Really deserves an origin story. THE RUNAWAYS movie should've given her a bit more of one. But hey, maybe she doesn't want that. I don't know. But if I had the clout I'd at least ask.
unlabelledView post →From a book about 500 rock tees, here are two t-shirts actually owned and worn by Joan Jett herself back in the day. In photos she's usually wearing a yellow version of the bottom shirt but in the movie THE RUNAWAYS, they have her wearing this one during the "house party debut" scene.
unlabelledView post →Now back to excessive Runaways and Joan Jett-related posting, with a smattering of Halloween Horror Nights stuff that will build to a crescendo, climaxing the first weekend in November. Here's a still from the movie THE RUNAWAYS (2010), a highly fictionalized take on the band's story.
unlabelledView post →Hard to imagine more ideal casting than Kristen Stewart as Joan Jett. Like a lot of movies based on reality THE RUNAWAYS plays fast and loose with facts, but never let facts get in the way of a good yarn! Leads Stewart and Dakota Fanning are pitch-perfect throughout. Also Michael Shannon.
unlabelledView post →Years ago, I helped a friend program a doc on tribute bands at the Dinkytowner, and iirc, the film covered tribute acts to the Runaways, Ace Frehley, Captain Beefheart, and GBV.
unlabelledView post →24 Hour Party People / Velvet Goldmine / The Runaways for music movie night
unlabelledView post →I was just watching the movie The Runaways while looking up what they're up to these days and I did not realize that Cherie Currie became a right-wing, anti gay & anti trans person😬
unlabelledView post →Cortney Dixon - If You Love Somebody, Don't F••k It Up (The Eagle Inn, Salford, 10 June 2026) 'If You Love Somebody....' is the kind of song that puts you in mind of The Runaways and The Go-Gos. It sounds like it should have been on the soundtrack of every 80s movie. youtu.be/NI8k-Opv86Y
unlabelledView post →i really want a Young Avengers series or movie! with Riri "leading" the team. hopefully they introduce Hulkling soon. not sure if the Runaways series counts in the MCU but some of those characters could be cool to add too
unlabelledView post →I love love love this list so much - and Bad News Bears and the Runaways is the un acknowledged buddy movie perfect double bill
unlabelledView post →Shotgunning scene from The Runaways movie has been my muse since age 16, really, if you think about it
unlabelledView post →Alina if I can actually remember the first thing I saw of Kristen Stewart that impressed me and it was while she was still doing the Twilight movies I saw her in that biopic movie The Runaways and God damn she was a smoke show just a fantastic performance Dakota Fanning was also good too.
unlabelledView post →Kingdom Hearts 3 is like if Avengers Endgame. If the studio mandated they connect the continuity of Iron Fist, Agents of Shield, the Runaways, Cloak and Dagger, and the One-Shot DVD bonus feature short films. By studio, I mean the director just did it, and Marvel let them release a 10 hour movie.
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