A young Diane Lane and an even younger Laura Dern (15! and 13!, respectively, at the time this was filmed) play young ladies desperate to get out out their quickly dying town. In some rather contrived fashion, the girls end up opening for two semi-known bands on a tour throughout PA. (It's important to mention that these two bands contain actual members of The Clash, Sex Pistols, and The Tubes. How fun!) With much help from an oddly enthusiastic local news reporter, they rise almost as quickly as they fall. A pretty important lesson in the inevitable downfalls of greed, and never forgetting your roots.Sorry, Netflix, but you're probably never getting this one back. I watched it like, three times in two days this week. I was so impressed with Diane Lane in this movie! For only being 15, she gave one hell of a performance. Laura Dern was just kinda there. Her performance was in no way indicative of the excellent work she would be doing just a few years later. Certainly an inspiration to the riot grrl explosion that would happen a few years later, I think the movie had a lot of interesting things to say about women and the very human tendency to conform. I really hated the obviously tacked on ending. I would have done just fine with the intended bleak ending. Anyways, I need to start working on my Third Degree Burns Halloween costume immediately! Who wants to be Dee Pleeted? Or Dizzy Heights?
Best Line: "Every girl should be given an electric guitar on her 16th birthday." -Corinne Burns
Grade: A- (For the shitty ending.)
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