Sep 21, 2026 · 1 hr 12 min · 10 segments
For this episode Dan, Michael and Helena look back at a movie Dan and Helena enjoyed as teenagers, The Runaways (2010). This episode features some pretty heavy topics, so understandable if people…
look this this yeah i thought i'm so conflicted about this movie
Yeah, it's a difficult one now, like, being like, oh, okay, a lot of this is obviously, you know, it was written
by...
Yeah, like
Joan Jett and Sherry Curry were like, yeah, we'll help make the film and that, but obviously it's a very condensed, kind of cleaner version, weirdly enough, as well, compared to, you know, how fucking awful the producer actually treated them.
Yeah.
I was going to say, I haven't really
looked into the truth of the matter, but I assumed this was like painting him in a light that's good enough to not have him close the film down with legal stuff.
Not
really.
This film is more like, it's not like a sort of hard-hitting biopic about the runaways.
It's more of like kind of rose-tinted glasses look at women in punk and rock music.
Yeah.
It's very like, ooh, wasn't it? It's very like rose-tinted kind of Hollywood-y thing.
Because, yeah, there's a lot of stuff they didn't talk about.
I get what you mean.
I feel like when I watched this when it first, you know, it would have been like 2011 probably that I watched it.
And I'd have just been like, oh, this is awesome because, you know, it's a biography.
This is what happened.
And it's like, no, I've since learned that films do not always actually show what happened.
You
know, there was a different girl in The Runaways at the beginning as well, and she quit.
Not in this
film at all.
And she quit because of the producer.
look this this yeah i thought i'm so conflicted about this movie
Yeah, it's a difficult one now, like, being like, oh, okay, a lot of this is obviously, you know, it was written
by...
Yeah, like
Joan Jett and Sherry Curry were like, yeah, we'll help make the film and that, but obviously it's a very condensed, kind of cleaner version, weirdly enough, as well, compared to, you know, how fucking awful the producer actually treated them.
Yeah.
I was going to say, I haven't really
looked into the truth of the matter, but I assumed this was like painting him in a light that's good enough to not have him close the film down with legal stuff.
Not
really.
This film is more like, it's not like a sort of hard-hitting biopic about the runaways.
It's more of like kind of rose-tinted glasses look at women in punk and rock music.
Yeah.
It's very like, ooh, wasn't it? It's very like rose-tinted kind of Hollywood-y thing.
Because, yeah, there's a lot of stuff they didn't talk about.
I get what you mean.
I feel like when I watched this when it first, you know, it would have been like 2011 probably that I watched it.
And I'd have just been like, oh, this is awesome because, you know, it's a biography.
This is what happened.
And it's like, no, I've since learned that films do not always actually show what happened.
You
know, there was a different girl in The Runaways at the beginning as well, and she quit.
Not in this
film at all.
And she quit because of the producer.
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