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      • Touring with a group named the Looters, the Stains reach phenomenal heights of hype before they even cut a single, becoming the target of the unscrupulous David Clennon, who, as the band's agent, turns the act into a merchandiser's dream. The film is interesting in its portrayal of rock 'n' roll on the road, though it's unsuccessful as a whole.
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  2. Lou Adler does deserve credit for getting one thing very right: this movie did need to end with the grown-up Stains as sellouts and their pirated punk anthem reprocessed into a Private Benjamin music video on MTV, plus good-natured horseplay by the band at a swimming pool. That was always the inevitable endgame, even if after a brief ...

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  3. It's a completely "new-fashioned" brand of humor, light years from the I-Love-Lucy zaniness of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes or the cool, sophisticated repartee of Stage Door. Full Review | Aug 21,...

  4. Nov 17, 2022 · In addition to female empowerment and the DIY punk aesthetic, The Fabulous Stains tackled sexism and misogyny, which 40 years later still remain obstacles for women in the music business. With the exception of Lawn Boy, the male figures behave antagonistically towards the Stains – from the Looters’ Billy (“Girls can’t be rock and rollers.

  5. Josh Lewis’s review published on Letterboxd: Kind of impressive to assemble a film shot by the legendary Bruce Surtees into something that comes across a bit sloppy and amateurish (not necessarily a bad thing for this material), but otherwise this is a pretty delightful and funny Vancouver-shot teen girl punk rocker industry drama.

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  6. Corinne Burns (Diane Lane) is a typical frustrated teenager living in a nowhere town until she catches punk band the Looters. Bewitched by the whole punk scene, she and her fledgling band, the ...

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  7. Aug 24, 2021 · Directed by record producer Lou Adler, this 1981 feature has vague satiric intentions: a no-talent Pennsylvania teenager becomes a rock star on the basis of a two-tone hairdo, a surly attitude, and...

  8. This week we don’t put out! Well actually, were putting out a podcast about LADIES AND GENTLEMEN… THE FABULOUS STAINS with A/V Club writer Katie Rife. Katie talks about STAINS being a once lost movie – its a secret handshake. There’s chatting about how this influenced the Riot Grrrl movement in punk. How popular would this have been if it had a bigger release? Did it need to be a cult ...

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