"Jail-fucking-bait! Jack-fucking-pot!" howls Michael Shannon in
The Runaways. The actor plays Kim Fowley, manager of rock's ultimate girl band. The Runaways — with Lita Ford, Joan Jett, Cherie Currie, Sandy West and Jackie Fox — helped define 1970s music, but the story didn't get its Hollywood due until 2010. The movie, with Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning, is part of the Kansas City Central Library's Off the Wall Series "Procreation, Pharmaceuticals, and Backbeat-Driven/Blues-Based Music," so expect boobs, drug use and questionable language.
The Runaways starts at 8:45 p.m. on the library's roof (14 West 10th Street, 816-701-3400). RSVP at
kclibrary.org.