Cherie's real life rapes ignored in this movie

i didn't know she was raped but it's only a movie and some parts are romanticized

The film also overlooks the emotionally abusive relationship Cherie had with the band's tour manager. A relationship IS acknowledged by the scene where they lock themselves in the bathroom to have sex, and later during a sequence set during the tour of Japan. That he came to loathe & ignore her almost immediately after their initial hookup is not even hinted at in the film.

I didn't know she's been raped until I read the book, after I saw the movie, but honestly the creepy scene at the beginning when he's making sexual comments at her was enough to creep me out.

I think opening with an actual rape scene would have been way too strong and confusing about the tone of the movie. There's a lot that didn't go in there before she joined the band and as an opening scene, that would have made it impossible to go on from there.

If they had included it, people would be bitching they went on with the glam and fun as if nothing had happened and it was despicable

For every lie I unlearn I learn something new - Ani Difranco

Unfortunately, bio pics end up being sanitized or altered, turned into what is tantamount to fiction, for the sake of the director wanting something (s)he will think will bring in more audiences. Cashing in, and nothing more. Did the band members get even a stipend from the making of this flick?

People do not want the truth.

Which is terrible.

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I disagree. The movie starts when Cherie is 15 and The Runaways are just being formed. It would have been out of place to start the movie with an alleged rape that took place a year earlier and then jump forward a year later. The movie isn't just about her, but the band as a whole. Maybe if someone did a bio-pic focusing mainly on her that would be appropriate, but I think the director made the right artistic decision for the movie.