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Runaway Daughters

Name: Runaway Daughters
Genre: Drama
Released: 1994-08-12
Duration: 1 h 23 min
Rating: 5.7
Cast: Julie Bowen, Holly Fields, Jenny Lewis

Episode aired Aug 12, 1994
PG-13PG-13
1h 23m

IMDb RATING

5.7/10

317

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Julie Bowen and Paul Rudd in Runaway Daughters (1994)

Drama

Angie, Mary and Laura are tired of the same old 50s suburbia routine. The 3 guy-crazy girlfriends take to the road in a stolen car, trying to track down one of their ex-lovers before he leav... Read allAngie, Mary and Laura are tired of the same old 50s suburbia routine. The 3 guy-crazy girlfriends take to the road in a stolen car, trying to track down one of their ex-lovers before he leaves for the Navy, ending up in a heap of trouble.Angie, Mary and Laura are tired of the same old 50s suburbia routine. The 3 guy-crazy girlfriends take to the road in a stolen car, trying to track down one of their ex-lovers before he leaves for the Navy, ending up in a heap of trouble.

IMDb RATING

5.7/10

317

YOUR RATING

- Joe Dante
- Lou Rusoff(story)
- Charles S. Haas(story)
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Holly Fields (front right), Jenny Lewis (front left), and Julie Bowen (back)

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Trivia
Two of the runaway daughters' parents are played by actual married couples: Roger and Julie Corman and Christopher and Dee Wallace Stone.

Quotes
Mr. Nicholson: [over loud speaker at drive-in theater] Snack bar is closing in five minutes. Just five more minutes for those shrimp rolls. They're shrimply delicious!
[takes a bite of one, chews, then grimaces]

Crazy credits
Sputnik beeping and a man speaking Russian can be heard at the end of the credits.

Connections
Features I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957)

Soundtracks
Let the good times roll
Written by Shirley Goodman and Leonard Lee
Performed by the The Neville Brothers
Courtesy of A&M Records Inc

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Review

Featured review

6/10

Full Little Dante Flick

Angie, Mary, and Laura are teenage girls who are fed up with their bland and unexciting small town lives. Mary discovers that she's pregnant after having sex with her boyfriend. Since said boyfriend has enlisted in the navy, the trio decide to drive cross country to San Diego to confront him. The gals encounter a colorful array of folks on their journey.

Joe Dante does it again, making a fun little picture that captures the spirit of the b-picture. He dopes this like no one else. Not every film he has made is incredible, but this really deserves more attention than it has received (likely because it was buried as a television episode).

We have some great Dante regulars and new faces: Dick Miller, Robert Picardo, Dee Wallace, Belinda Balaski, Paul Rudd, Roger Corman, Sam Arkoff and Courtney Gains. This works as a companion piece to Dante's "Matinee" taking on the 1960s.

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