Rating: R
Genre:
Drama
Release Date: 09/16/2008
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD5.1
Run Time: 87 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Not For Children, Adult Language, Adult Situations, Not For Children, Adult Language
Distributor/Studio: Rhino Entertainment
A very inexperienced rock band flirts with fame thanks to a valuable assist from the media in this
comedy-drama directed by veteran music producer
Lou Adler.
Corinne Burns (
Diane Lane) is a fifteen-year-old orphan who gains a measure of local notoriety when she quits her job at a burger stand during a live television newscast.
Corinne has few prospects but plenty of nerve, and she's formed a band with her sister
Tracy (
Marin Kanter) and cousin
Jessica (
Laura Dern) called the Stains. While checking out a gig by veteran hard rock band the Metal Corpses, led by flamboyant singer
Lou Corpse (
Fee Waybill), opened by British
punk upstarts the Looters,
Corrine sneaks backstage to ask advice just as
Lou demands tour manager
Lawnboy (
Barry Ford) find a new opening act.
Lawnboy impulsively gives the Stains the gig, and while the first show for the girls (who've had all of three practices) is little short of a disaster,
Corrine's skunk-stripe hairdo, provocative clothes and defiant declaration "We don't put out" captures the attention of a television reporter who covered her before. A story on the evening news about the Stains turns the band into a cult sensation, and Looters lead singer
Billy (
Ray Winstone) tries to offer her some advice and emotional support as the Stains rise from opening act to headliners, but
Corinne and her friends learn that their new fans are a very fickle breed. Shot in 1980 but released to only a handful of theaters in 1982,
Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains gained a potent cult following after it appeared on cable television, largely among
punk rock fans -- the Looters featured
Steve Jones and
Paul Cook of
the Sex Pistols on guitar and drums as well as
Paul Simonon from
the Clash on bass, while L.A. punk troublemakers
Black Randy and the Metrosquad briefly appear as themselves.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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