"Every Citizen Should Get an Electric Guitar When She Turns 16"

"Its cast impresses now, but at the time the film was made nearly everyone was an amateur.
"Lane was only 15, and Laura Dern, who plays a bandmate, was 12. Ray Winstone, excellent as Lane's musical rival and love interest, had barely acted in films and had never sung. Steve Cook, Paul Jones, Paul Simonon and Fee Waybill, who play key band members, had barely if ever acted."

Ann Powers in the Los Angeles Times revisits the 1982 cult movie Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains.