Great Review of The Runaways
This isn’t a movie about Joan Jett; it’s an homage to her bandmate, lead singer Cheri Curry. Jett’s pretty much a bystander, through the script and Kristen Stewart’s oddly nonchalant portrayal of her. While Jett’s name is remembered today, some forty years after the Runaways made history as the first ever all female hard rock band, Curry, the iconoclastic Bowie obsessed 16 year old who drew the heat, has all but disappeared.
But like all things, good, mediocre, and bad in pop culture, Curry’s back with a bang. Floria Sigismondi’s screenplay, based on Curry’s autobiography Neon Angel, revives the intense rock life she and the band lived, through her eyes. They were pioneers, and tested the limits of sexism, independence and their passion for music. It’s heavy stuff especially considering her age.
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