The Runaways Page #6

Synopsis: In 1975, San Fernando Valley teen Joan Larkin reinvents herself as Joan Jett, a guitarist who wants to form an all-girl punk band. She pitches the idea to a sleazy manager, Kim Fowley, who pairs her with a drummer and then searches for a face: he finds Cherie Currie, at age 15, the perfect jailbait image for his purpose; by luck, she can sing. Two others round out the band, The Runaways. Fowley books a tour, signs them to Mercury Records, and packs them off to crowds in Japan. Seeds of conflict sprout early: Fowley puts Cherie front and center in the publicity, she's soon strung out on drugs and vodka, and jealousies arise. Without adult supervision, where can Joan and Cherie end up?
Director(s): Floria Sigismondi
Production: Apparition
  6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.6
Metacritic:
65
Rotten Tomatoes:
69%
R
Year:
2010
106 min
£3,600,000
Website
1,265 Views


515

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43:13,174 -- 00:43:14,925

Now, why don't you

go to your rooms...

516

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43:15,093 -- 00:43:17,427

...and do your f***ing homework

or something?

517

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43:17,595 -- 00:43:18,845

Like we need a sound check.

518

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43:19,013 -- 00:43:20,973

Pretty soon you'll be

opening up for us.

519

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43:21,140 -- 00:43:23,600

Opening your legs, maybe.

520

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43:47,709 -- 00:43:50,544

-Dude, it really hurts. lt really hurts.

-Come on.

521

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43:55,049 -- 00:43:56,717

Oh, sh*t.

522

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43:58,219 -- 00:44:02,472

You guys, come on, open up.

I gotta take a piss. Please?

523

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44:04,058 -- 00:44:06,893

I really gotta piss, man. Come on.

524

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44:16,279 -- 00:44:17,738

It's too perfect.

525

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44:20,700 -- 00:44:25,787

Hey, these jerk-offs

have betterfood than we did.

526

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44:25,955 -- 00:44:27,581

Yeah.

527

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44:28,833 -- 00:44:30,584

You gotta pee, right?

528

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44:31,711 -- 00:44:33,211

Here.

529

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44:33,546 -- 00:44:35,464

Pee in this sh*t.

530

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44:35,923 -- 00:44:38,091

What are you doing, man?

531

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44:38,259 -- 00:44:41,762

-You can't pee on their guitar.

-l don't give a f***.

532

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44:43,848 -- 00:44:47,476

No, I do, actually.

It'll probably add to their sound.

533

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44:48,269 -- 00:44:50,062

Oh, sh*t. There's someone in here.

534

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44:50,229 -- 00:44:52,647

-Where's your belt?

-Sh*t.

535

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44:56,944 -- 00:44:59,321

Come on, man. Just come on.

536

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44:59,489 -- 00:45:01,156

Thank you.

537

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45:04,077 -- 00:45:08,413

Whoa, you f***ing filthy dog.

538

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45:09,290 -- 00:45:11,500

Hey, we're on in 10.

539

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45:13,127 -- 00:45:14,878

Hey, up or down?

540

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45:15,046 -- 00:45:16,671

Down, girl.

541

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45:16,839 -- 00:45:18,340

Next up on stage...

542

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45:18,508 -- 00:45:22,844

...from Los Angeles, California,

the Runaways.

543

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47:03,613 -- 00:47:08,575

Kim, we are f***ing rocking it.

I mean, the crowd's been really great.

544

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47:08,743 -- 00:47:11,995

-I hear you're tearing things up.

-We're running out of money though.

545

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47:12,163 -- 00:47:14,122

We're f***ing hungry.

Can you send us more?

546

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47:14,290 -- 00:47:17,250

It's a bad time. I'm with

an A & R scout, it could be big.

547

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47:17,418 -- 00:47:19,628

You just keep those dogs in line,

okay?

548

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47:19,795 -- 00:47:22,255

Things are happening, trust me.

549

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47:23,799 -- 00:47:25,383

Okay.

550

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47:26,010 -- 00:47:28,094

Yeah, yeah, yeah, you got it.

551

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47:28,262 -- 00:47:31,056

-just send us some more money--

-l can't come, Joan.

552

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47:31,224 -- 00:47:34,351

I get vertigo when I travel

and my gimpy leg acts up.

553

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47:34,519 -- 00:47:36,394

Maybe I can get a road manager.

554

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47:36,938 -- 00:47:38,271

Kim.

555

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47:43,277 -- 00:47:45,570

Yeah.

556

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47:58,334 -- 00:48:00,168

Put that back.

557

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48:01,170 -- 00:48:03,588

Are you f***ing kidding me?

558

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48:03,756 -- 00:48:06,633

-Off!

-l like that song.

559

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48:36,872 -- 00:48:39,624

All right.

Now I'm gonna introduce Joan Jett...

560

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48:39,792 -- 00:48:42,419

...with "l Love Playing With Fire!"

561

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51:54,695 -- 00:51:57,030

Hey, kid. Wake up.

562

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51:57,198 -- 00:51:59,324

I've got some bad news.

563

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52:03,746 -- 00:52:05,872

F***ing Kim, man.

564

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52:06,040 -- 00:52:08,249

-He snaked us.

-What?

565

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52:08,876 -- 00:52:12,796

All his bullshit

about paying your dues...

566

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52:12,963 -- 00:52:16,299

...that's how you're gonna get

a record deal, blah-f***ing-blah...

567

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52:17,968 -- 00:52:19,302

...he was right.

568

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52:21,806 -- 00:52:22,889

We f***ing did it.

569

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52:24,225 -- 00:52:25,725

-What?

-That Frankenstein...

570

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52:25,893 -- 00:52:28,228

...crazy-looking motherf***er did it.

571

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52:29,230 -- 00:52:32,732

Mercury f***ing Records.

Mercury f***ing Records.

572

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52:32,900 -- 00:52:35,068

-We got signed?

-Yup.

573

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52:35,236 -- 00:52:38,696

We're going to Hollywood in an hour.

I'm gonna tell the rest ofthe girls.

574

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52:38,864 -- 00:52:40,615

Get your little ass ready.

575

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52:51,210 -- 00:52:53,545

I can't believe it. We got signed.

576

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52:53,712 -- 00:52:56,422

Hello? Hey. Got a bag?

577

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52:57,842 -- 00:52:59,968

We got signed!

578

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53:02,471 -- 00:53:03,930

Yeah.

579

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53:04,098 -- 00:53:07,517

Yeah, and you know,

I was gonna form a band of dwarves...

580

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53:07,685 -- 00:53:11,020

...but their hands were too small,

they couldn't hold their instruments.

581

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53:11,188 -- 00:53:13,022

These ladies

can hold their instruments.

582

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53:13,190 -- 00:53:14,607

And their liquor.

583

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53:14,775 -- 00:53:18,111

See, girls nowadays,

they don't have any role models.

584

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53:18,279 -- 00:53:23,616

This band's about self-empowerment.

Aphrodite, Cleopatra, Eurydice.

585

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53:23,784 -- 00:53:25,243

No more second-class status...

586

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53:25,411 -- 00:53:28,788

...sitting at boring concerts

with their a**hole boyfriends.

587

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53:28,956 -- 00:53:32,750

The Runaways have the most chance

of any group l've seen...

588

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53:32,918 -- 00:53:34,502

...to do what The Beatles did...

589

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53:34,670 -- 00:53:37,505

...to tearthis world apart.

590

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54:33,187 -- 00:54:36,105

It means "thank you very much"

in Japanese.

591

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54:36,273 -- 00:54:39,525

I could do everyone's hair and makeup

on tour. What do you think?

592

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54:40,027 -- 00:54:42,320

Everyone does their own hair

and makeup, you know?

593

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54:42,488 -- 00:54:46,699

Yeah. Okay, well, l had another idea

about making bags for everybody.

594

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54:46,867 -- 00:54:52,330

Like silver clutches

with their names on them.

595

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54:55,334 -- 00:54:57,543

I'm not going, am I?

596

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54:57,711 -- 00:55:00,046

-l'm not going to Japan.

-l didn't say that.

597

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55:00,214 -- 00:55:03,716

I'm your sister, Cherie, you don't

have to say it. l can hear you.

598

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55:04,426 -- 00:55:07,387

It'sjust that no one really brings

their family, you know?

599

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55:07,554 -- 00:55:10,223

We don't have the cash,

and we don't need the distraction.

600

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55:10,391 -- 00:55:12,392

I wouldn't be a distraction,

I'd be a help.

601

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55:12,559 -- 00:55:14,894

-l know.

-You promised.

602

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55:16,021 -- 00:55:19,399

So, what then?

Am l supposed to stay here again?

603

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55:19,566 -- 00:55:23,319

Making tacos? Playing nurse?

Taking out the garbage?

604

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55:26,907 -- 00:55:28,574

I gotta go.

605

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56:25,466 -- 00:56:27,175

Not until you get this song down.

606

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56:27,342 -- 00:56:30,803

Now take it again from the chorus.

One, two, three.

607

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56:37,436 -- 00:56:40,271

Oh, you hideous souls...

608

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56:40,439 -- 00:56:43,316

...may we not grow old and horrid.

609

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56:43,484 -- 00:56:45,318

And dreadful.

610

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56:47,321 -- 00:56:48,488

What are you laughing at?

611

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56:48,655 -- 00:56:52,867

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Floria Sigismondi

Floria Sigismondi is an Italian-Canadian photographer and director. She is best known for writing and directing The Runaways, starring Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning as well as directing music videos for Justin Timberlake, Rihanna, The White Stripes, David Bowie, Pink, Marilyn Manson, Katy Perry, Björk, The Cure, Christina Aguilera, Ellie Goulding, Fiona Apple, Sigur Rós, Muse, Interpol, Leonard Cohen, The Dead Weather, Alice Glass and Perfume Genius, as well as commercials for Gucci, MAC, Target, Samsung, Absolut Vodka, Old Navy, Motorola, Adidas, Thierry Mugler and Eaton's. more…

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