FlashCallahan The Stains are a rock band comprised of sisters Corinne and Tracy, and their cousin Jessica. Their talent is questionable but the media attention on Corinne's personal life gets them a job as a support band on a U.S. tour. The tour headlines an ageing metal band - the Metal Corpses - and their lead-in act, the British rock band, the Looters. The Stains, purely there as a bookend between the two feuding acts, take the rock world by storm with further media attention centred on Corinne and her transformation into punk rock diva, and what her fans call "the skunk look". The dynamics on the tour quickly changes as the Stains' collective stars rise.......Another largely forgotten film from the eighties that has gained a cult following over the years, has again, passed me by up until now. And while the music is wonderful, and the poetry like babblings of Corrine are pretty genius, the rest of the film is decidedly ho-hum.The film shows fame in three different stages-the has beens, the strugglers, and the flash in the pan overnighters, which the latter is the titular group.Lane is brilliant as the wannabe anarchist, and her and Winstone make the film watchable, it's just the rest of the support are bland, and maunder there way through their stereotypical character arcs.But, as said before, I'm probably missing a trick not seeing it when first released, the element of propaganda and 'blaming the fame machine' is there, but it's too short of a film to really delve into the psyche of the main characters.Like the titular band, the film comes and goes too soon, a little more depth would have helped.

skex123 Wow, a punk rock movie that plays like an after-school -special while staying true to the real feeling of punk. I really liked this film a lot, seeing it on late night TV. It captures an era or rebellion- I mean the era of being 13 and wanting to ROCK out and trying to find out what is real. The ex-Pistols are in this movie because the band just imploded on it's American tour and they had nothing better to do before going back to England. What could be better than being in a great cult classic? I heard that they were very supportive of the movie, but this is just a rumour. I knew a lot of punk-gals who started on this movie.PLAY THIS MOVIE FOR THE KIDDIES

elochai There is something about this movie that makes me think that it is one of the best as well as the worst films ever made. A side of me doesn't make me wonder as to why the studio execs never wanted to release this even as a slight cult-fringe film. It isn't that. It is not a cult-fringe film. I see this as a film where in a fine and precious moment in the early 80's there was a time when the 80's was defining itself. It was kicking in the teeth of the 70's and 60's with vigor. It pulls itself off and doesn't do so without kicking it's in own teeth as well. Believe it or not there is optimism. Check it out just for the sake of checking it out. It is worth it,Loved the mall scene!!

refkim1 I was a student in high school when the film crew and actors/actresses came to Vancouver, British Columbia Canada to film this movie.They had a radio contest at the local radio station called 14 CFUN and they wanted people to come down to the radion station to sign up to be "extras" in the movie. I had never done this before, but took a chance and was selected. I was to play a "skunk".We filmed down at the exhibition grounds of the P.N.E. {Pacific National Exhibition}. I missed 3 days of school to do this movie and had the time of my life! Actually, it was even more fun when I found a friend of mine was also picked as an extra.I remember meeting and getting the autographs of the Sex Pistols and Clash members who were there. I actually didn't even know that there were other "stars" in this movie until I had found this website and saw the cast list.I also remember eating way too much "White Spot" {burgers and fries}. It seemed like that is all they fed us. I had been "called back" for a 3rd day of the shoot because they had chosen me for some "close-up shots".....much to my surprise. I remember the costume and the makeup that we wore as "skunks". We all wore see-through red blouses with very high pumps on our feet. The makeup was kind of "skanky" and the big white stripe that they put down the middle of your hair. I can barely remember what we looked like.I signed a contract with Paramount Pictures when the movie was still called "All Washed Up". I never did see it. Actually, when I was in Waikiki, Hawaii a couple of years later, we had been watching "sumo wrestling" on one of their channels and had fallen asleep. When I woke up, the credits to this movie were scrolling by!!!!!I was soooooo upset about it, because I had never even seen the movie.I have still yet to find this movie and would like very much to attain a copy of it on DVD.