A double-bill of rock 'n' roll-themed features set in the 1970s. In 'The Runaways' (2010), a coming-of-age biopic about the all-girl teen band, Kristen Stewart stars as Joan Jett, the rebellious rock and roll chick who learns to play guitar and dreams of forming a hardcore, all-girl rock band. When she meets eccentric record producer Kim Fowley (Michael Shannon), he is struck by the possibilities of exploiting a 'jailbait' teenage girl band with guitars, and together Jett and Fowley comb the sleazy nightclubs of Los Angeles in search of further band members. They eventually find their lead singer in 15-year-old blonde sexpot Cherie Currie (Dakota Fanning), and are soon signed by Mercury Records who send them off off on a tour of Japan. But the rock star life soon starts to take its toll as the girls - still underage - become immersed in a destructive combination of sex, drugs and in-fighting. In 'Almost Famous' (2000) 15-year-old high school student William Miller (Patrick Fugit) has just won the chance to write a story about Stillwater, an up-and-coming rock band, for Rolling Stone magazine. So he joins the band on tour, makes friends with lead guitarist Russell Hammond (Billy Crudup) and groupie Penny Lane (Kate Hudson), and gets himself a ringside seat for some classic 1970s rock excesses. But with Rolling Stone demanding a story that could very well cause him to betray his newfound friends, his over-protective mother (Frances McDormand) keeping a regular check on him, and tensions within the band reaching breaking point, William finds that he must tread very carefully indeed.
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