(Apparition Films. 1 hour, 49 minutes. Rated R for language, drug use and sexual content - all involving teens. Directed by Floria Sigismondi.) Kristen Stewart (Joan Jett), Dakota Fanning (Cherie Currie), Michael Shannon (Kim Fowley), Riley Keough (Marie Currie). Music by The Runaways.
By: Jared Counts, April 08th, 2010 05:00 AMIn this partially fictional account, The Runaways charts the history of the first all-girl hard-rock band, from its formation by the talented-but-sleazy Kim Fowley (Shannon), through the band's meteoric rise overseas, lead singer Cherie Currie's (Fanning) drug problems, and its eventual disbanding. An interesting but flawed look at a pioneering group.