LADIES AND GENTLEMEN THE FABULOUS STAINS

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• Release Year: 1982
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
• Plot: Ladies And Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains received a limited initial theatrical release and has been seen only on television and occasionally at film festivals. Yet somehow this 1982 film about a trio of misfit teenage girls who start a punk band went on to inspire a generation of female rockers.; ; SHE CAN'T FOOL ALL THE FANS ALL OF THE TIME...; ; Recently orphaned Corinne 'Third Degree' Burns (a 15-year-old Diane Lane) enlists her sister (Marin Kanter) and cousin (Laura Dern) to launch a punk rock band, The Stains. Three rehearsals later, The Stains score the opening slot on a cross-country tour with aging metal act The Metal Corpses (led by Fee Waybill of The Tubes) and British punk rockers The Looters (real-life punk pioneers Steve Jones and Paul Cook of the Sex Pistols and Paul Simonon from The Clash). The Stains' meteoric rise (and equally lightning-quick fall) owes more to TV exposure than to talent.; ; Cynical commentary on teen angst and rampant consumerism, or prescient allegory for the riot grrrl scene?
• Cast: Peter Donat, Diane Lane, Marin Kanter, Laura Dern, Christine Lahti, Janet Wright, Mia Bendixsen, Stuart Ferguson, Ray Winstone, Paul Simonon, Steve Jones, Paul Cook, Fee Waybill, Vince Welnick, Vern Willis, Douglas Mackinnon, Susan Bracher, David Clennon, Diana Wygod, Barry Ford, James Nichols, John Lehne, Cynthia Sikes, Angie Crowe, Venus Allin, Leeann Decou, Daniella Cicconi, Mary Arnold, Elizabeth Daily, John Morris, The Metro Squad, Heather Elton, Britt S. Baker, Shelley Barr, Zareen Engineer, Debbie Rochon, Brent Spiner, Lou Adler, Nancy Dowd
• Director: Lou Adler
• Runtime: 1:27
• Company: Rhino Home Video
• Media Format: Movie