The Runaways (2010) - Movie Details

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Release Date:	March 19, 2010 (Limited) April 9, 2010
On DVD:	July 20, 2010
Genre:	Drama
Director:	Floria Sigismondi
Writer:	Floria Sigismondi
Cast:	Kristen Stewart, Dakota Fanning, Michael Shannon, Scout Taylor-Compton, Stella Maeve, Alessandra Torresani, Hannah Marks, Brett Cullen
Studio:	Apparition
Official site:	runawaysmovie.com
Running Time:	105 minutes
MPAA Rating:	Rated R for language, drug use and sexual content - all involving teens

Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning star in this music-fueled story of the ground-breaking, all girl, teenage rock band of the 1970s: The Runaways. The film follows two friends, Joan Jett and Cherie Currie, as they rise from rebellious Southern California kids to rock stars of the now legendary group that paved the way for future generations of girl bands. Joan and Cherie fall under the Svengali-like influence of rock impresario Kim Fowley, played by Michael...

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"Jailbait." What better way to describe Dakota Fanning in The Runaways, in which she plays sexy young starlet Cherie Currie opposite Kristen Stewart, who plays Joan Jett. Both onscreen and in real life, the young actress has suddenly transformed from eerily good child actor to can't-wait-til-she's-eighteen sex symbol (for creepy perverted men, not me - of course). In recent years, Fanning has played a sexed-up 13-year old in the superhero flick Push, a torture-loving villain in Twilight (alongside Stewart) and now a drug-crazed singer. All audiences should be eager to see what she, and Stewart, do next.

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