Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains (1982)

Trying to escape a dead end life in a dying small town, teenaged Diane Lane finagles her way into joining a rock tour with her unpracticed punk band that includes her cousin Laura Dern and little sister Marin Canter. It’s rather incredible that I hadn’t ever heard of this film until stumbling on reviews fairly recently. It’s a fantastic merging of Girl Power and early 1980s MTV culture. Lane’s character is so very relatable while also being aspirational. She has no idea what she’s doing, but she’s not going to let that stop her or get in her way even as she fumbles at almost every step. At only seventeen years old, Lane the actress is impressive, carrying the film on her young back in ways that is hard to look away.