Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains (1982) on Netflix
Seventeen-year-old Corinne Burns is fired from a fast-food job after lashing out at her boss on live television. She fronts the Stains with her sister Tracy and cousin Jessica McNeil.
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Plot summary
Corinne Burns, seventeen, loses her job at a fast-food restaurant in Charlestown, Pennsylvania, after shouting at her boss during a live television appearance. The segment wins her teenage admirers. Interviewed again, she says she sings in the Stains, a band she started with her sister, Tracy, and their cousin, Jessica McNeil. At a concert organized by the tour manager Lawnboy, the metal band the Metal Corpses play with the Looters, a British punk group on the rise. Lawnboy adds the Stains to the tour even though he has never heard them play.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains (1982)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- During the film's winter 1980 shoot in Vancouver, Ray Winstone accidentally hit Fee Waybill in the eye at full force in a scene; Waybill finished the take with his eye visibly swelling and it was kept in the final cut.
- Laura Dern's mother, Diane Ladd, refused to give her permission to appear in the film, so Dern sued for legal emancipation and took the part.
SPOILER
Director Lou Adler's demand for a rewrite drove screenwriter Nancy Dowd and Caroline Coon off the set; Dowd took her name off the script and was credited as "Rob Morton", and the film sat without an ending for two years until Adler tacked on a Stains music video.- The film predated the riot grrl scene of the 1990s, and its early fans included members of Bikini Kill and Bratmobile; musician Kate Nash dyed her hair to match Corinne's.
