The Runaways Is Now Playing Nationwide

And how perfect... Today meet happens to be Kristen Stewart's birthday!

Kristen histrion and Dakota Fanning star in this music-fueled story of the ground-breaking, all girl, teenage sway band of the 1970s: The Runaways. The flick follows digit friends, Joan Jett and Cherie Currie, as they uprise from rebellious Southern Calif. kids to sway stars of the today legendary group that sealed the way for forthcoming generations of girl bands. Joan and Cherie start low the Svengali-like impact of sway impresario Kim Fowley, played by archangel Shannon, who turns the group into an outrageous success and a family of misfits. With its tough-chick ikon and nakedness talent, the band quickly earns a study for itselfâ€"and so do its digit leads: Joan is the band’s clean rock’ n’ roll heart, patch Cherie, with her Bowie-Bardot looks, is the stimulate kitten. Written and directed by Floria Sigismondi, the flick chronicles Joan and Cherie’s tumultuous relation on and off stage, as the band starts to break out.