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Sunday 31 October 2010

Movie#66 The Runaways

A good work by Kristen Stewart (Joan Jett), Dakota Fanning (Cherie Currie) and Michael Shannon (Kim Fowley). Supposedly a true story of rock artists and how a 'conceptual' all girls rock band formed and failed.
For lovers of rock music and all those who do not care about the profanity in every screen shot, it is a good watch. It also shows another story if one can look deeply. It shows the story of two girls (mainly) who are in love with music especially rock. With the help of a eccentric manager they form a all girls rock group. This, at a time when girls rarely sing rock or mainly never. Through all trials and tribulations, they succeed to get signed by a record label. Life changes drastically for them. Thrown into public life at a young age of 16, fame gets into the head of them. Priorities change from 'our group' to 'my life'. Maybe there is a reason for that change but they failed to communicate properly to each other why one needed that. Drugs are introduced into their life and destroy one of them almost completely. While the other one struggle because of this but pulls through and becomes famous. The fallen one get up but chooses another way of life to help herself.
Not a family watch because of heavy profanity, drug usage and intimate scenes. My perosnal rating is 2.5 out of 5…

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