Edgeplay: A Film About the Runaways (2004)

Name: Edgeplay: A Film About the Runaways
Rating: 3.6

3.6 of 5 from 47 ratings

1h 49min

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In 1975, a group of underage teenaged girls, including then unknown future rock stars Joan Jett and Lita Ford, got together to form the first-ever female hard rock band, The Runaways. Signed almost immediately to a major label deal, the band was dubbed "jailbait rock" by the press and became an overnight media sensation. Edgeplay chronicles the rise of the band, its hopes and dream, and its eventual disintegration as the result of media belittling, in-fighting and drug use amidst rumours of verbal and emotional abuse by the band's management.
Produced and directed by acclaimed filmmaker Victory Tischler-Blue, one of the Runaway's bass players, the film presents an unflinching insider's view of what it was like for six teenaged girls to be thrust into the limelight with minimal adult supervision in a "sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll" era hostile to female musicians.
Actors:: Kari Krome, Kim Fowley, Suzi Quatro, Sandy West, Jeri W., Jackie Fox, Lita Ford, Cherie Currie, Marie Harmon, Victory Tischler-Blue, Joan Jett
Directors:: Victory Tischler-Blue
Voiced By:: Toby Mamis
Writers:: Victory Tischler-Blue
Studio:: Image Ent.
Genres:: Documentary, Music & Musicals