Bad Reputation
The life and career of rock n' roll icon Joan Jett from her early years ripping it up onstage as the founder and backbone of hard-rock legends The Runaways, to her long time collaboration with Kenny Laguna as Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, and her enduring presence in pop culture as a rock pioneer and mentor. With her inimitable singles 'I Love Rock n Roll,' and 'Bad Reputation' Joan Jett inspired a generation of young women to rock.
November 23, 1978 in Vero Beach, Florida, USA
30 November 1959, Los Angeles, California, USA
5 August 1959, West Los Angeles, California, USA
19 May 1945, London, England, UK
September 5, 1946 in Stone Town, Zanzibar, Tanzania
16 May 1965, Compton, California, USA
21 April 1947, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
18 February 1933, Tokyo, Japan
April 3, 1962 in Lynn, Massachusetts, USA
10 May 1957, Lewisham Hospital, Lewisham, London, England, UK
17 February 1972, Oakland, California, USA
1 March 1944, Hammersmith, London, England, UK
7 September 1951, Akron, Ohio, USA
3 November 1952, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
12 November 1968, Portland, Oregon, USA
23 November 1992, Franklin, Tennessee, USA
1 July 1945, Miami, Florida, USA
19 September 1958, London, England, UK
31 October 1966, South Orange, New Jersey, USA
8 January 1935, Tupelo, Mississippi, USA
2 May 1903, Tacoma, Washington, USA
28 July 1969, Manchester, Connecticut, USA
26 July 1943, Dartford, Kent, England, UK
12 May 1936, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
5 January 1950, Brooklyn, New York, USA
October 29, 2018
Bad Reputation embodies the energy and zest which Jett injects into her music.
October 03, 2018
Jett is so free, she doesn't feel the need to speak to her private life. In her own way, that's as rock 'n' roll as it gets.
September 27, 2018
The film is a disappointment, and has limited value for viewers hoping to experience (or relive) the years in which Jett proved a woman could rock as hard as the boys.
October 29, 2018
There's also little exploration of Jett's sexuality nor the more salacious parts of her drug addictions that she ultimately came out the other side of intact (if there were any scars, emotionally or physically, we don't learn about them).
December 31, 2018
I'm fine reveling in the almost supernatural Joan Jett I just wish that we could have been given a peek behind the curtain.
October 25, 2018
The big treat is seeing Jett herself talk and watching her still-strong bond with producer and best friend Kenny Laguna: two leather-clad old mates, constantly bickering but inseparable.
September 28, 2018
Joan Jett deserves a great rock doc. This isn't it.
October 30, 2018
Shedding light on a story of 70s rock and roll that is really a study of a turning tide in the fight for gender equality tunnelled through music.
October 26, 2018
The life and career of the groundbreaking rocker Joan Jett gets the dreary documentary treatment as the director Kevin Kerslake marches obediently through her career...with nothing less than wide-eyed adoration.
September 27, 2018
From Jett's groundbreaking recordings with the Runaways to how she defied a narrow-minded media establishment, "Bad Reputation" is a case study in how a musician stays relevant.
October 29, 2018
Jett says she wants to offer her fans "a primal release". A pity, then, that this film about her is so repressed.
September 27, 2018
Bad Reputation roars through Jett's 60 years like one of her songs, snarling and unsubtle.
