Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains

Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains. 1981 Paramount Pictures, released to DVD by Rhino Home Video.
Starring: Diane Lane, Laura Dern, Ray Winstone, Christine Lahti, Marin Kanter
Also appearing: Steve Jones, Paul Cook, Paul Simonon, Vince Welnick, Fee Waybill
Director: Lou Adler
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Fifteen-year-old Corrine Burns (Lane) is an orphan living in a dead end town who gains some local notoriety when she quits a job at a fast food joint during a live television newscast. Despite a lack of potential jobs, and allegedly being considered the town's laughing stock, Corrine forms a band called the Stains with sister Tracy (Kanter) and a cousin Jessica (Dern). After all of three band rehearsals, the Stains are hired to open for an act called the Metal Corpses, led by Lou Corpse (Waybill). This only happened after Corrine snuck backstage to ask someone for advice.

The first Stains show is a disaster, but Corrine's onstage image and declaration that the Stains "don't put out" gets the attention of the same reporter who was at the restaurant when she quit her job. The story on the band earns them a cult audience, and the Stains quickly rise from opening act to headliners, but can the girls handle being the newest big thing in rock and roll?

The film never received wide distribution in theaters, but found a second life in art house cinemas, and later, on late night cable TV, namely USA Network's Night Flight, Showtime, and Z Channel. Interesting movie, I thought. Recommended.