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  • Director: David Markey
  • AMG Rating: star
  • Genre: Musical
  • Movie Type: Rock Musical
  • Themes: Rise and Fall Stories
  • Release Year: 1984
  • Run Time: 60 minutes

Plot

A comically punky version of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls , Desperate Teenage Lovedolls tells the story of three disaffected young girls who leave home to become rock stars. Lead singer Kitty Carryall (Jennifer Schwartz), whose mother is played by a shrill, hysterical man in a dress, runs away to Venice, CA, where she and a friend shoot heroin and meet a drummer named Patch. Kitty joins Patch in beating a Dylanesque tramp to death with his own guitar and battles a tough girl-gang called the She-Devils on a beach, stabbing one of them to escape. Despite raping one of the girls at his Brentwood condo, sleazy agent Johnny Tremaine engineers the Love Dolls' rise to the top, off a hot album called Electric Catbox. Soon, the band is at the top and decides to drop Johnny, so they drug his wine, setting the scene for a hilarious "bad trip" segment involving stuffed cats and a suicidal plunge from a building. The tragedy continues in grand rock-movie style as the band's guitarist is murdered by the She-Devils and Kitty shoots one of them to death in retaliation. We next see Kitty a year later, wandering the train tracks as a derelict. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide

Review

The surprisingly good zero-budget indie Desperate Teenage Lovedolls benefits from a wacky sense of sick humor and cool tunes by Redd Kross, Black Flag, Hip Drivers, and White Flag. The film is brimming with hip parodies and anarchic energy. The Valley of the Dolls paperback and a Star 80 poster show up for those who don't get it. The music is great fun, with campy covers of "Stairway to Heaven," "Purple Haze," and "Strutter," as well as some bouncy originals. Despite the fact that it looks like it cost about ten bucks to make, this hour-long comedy is a heck of a lot more fun than most multimillion-dollar epics. Lovedolls Superstar followed. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide

Cast

Tracy Lea; Steve McDonald; Hilary Rubens; Jennifer Schwartz

Credit

David Markey - Director, David Markey - Editor, Jordan Schwartz - Executive Producer, Henry Rollins - Songwriter, David Markey - Cinematographer, David Markey - Screen Story, David Markey - Screenwriter

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This article is about the movie. For the soundtrack, see Desperate Teenage Lovedolls (soundtrack).
Desperate Teenage Lovedolls
Directed by David Markey
Starring Janet Housden
Jennifer Schwartz
Steven McDonald
Jeff McDonald
Hilary Rubens
George Harrison
Ringo Starr
Music by Redd Kross
Nip Drivers
Black Flag
Greg Graffin and Greg Hetson
White Flag
Sin 34
The Bags
Darkside
Cinematography David Markey
Distributed by Eclectic DVD Distribution (a USA-based distributor)
Release date(s) 1984, May 20, 2003 (DVD release)
Running time 60 min.
Language English
Budget ~US$250 plus bus fair (estimated)
Followed by Lovedolls Superstar

Desperate Teenage Lovedolls is a 1984 low budget underground film, shot on super-8 film by David Markey, about a rock band of teenage runaways (loosely based on the story of The Runaways, the 1970s band that launched the careers of Joan Jett, Lita Ford, and Cherie Currie) and their misadventures. The film was released on DVD in 2003. A sequel, Lovedolls Superstar, was released in 1986.

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Plot

Two girls rediscover their love for playing rock (evidently there is a back story, and they had had a band before), find a drummer and begin practicing. When one of their mothers intervenes, they run away from home and are forced to fend for themselves on the streets against gangs and rival bands. Soon they are discovered and taken under the wing of rock manager Johnny Tremaine (played by Steven Shane McDonald) who uses them for sex and his own aspirations of wealth, and set out to get revenge on those who have wronged them, and rise to the top of the rock world.

Trivia

The film contains a cameo by a then-unknown Saul Hudson, who would go on to become known as Slash, the world-famous lead guitarist of Guns N' Roses.

DVD release

In 2003, the film was released in extended DVD format as Desperate Teenage Lovedolls (20th anniversary edition).

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