Real Life Rock Bands on Screen

When Hollywood Rocks The Runaways is the latest cinematic effort to bring the story of a real life rock band to the big screen
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Last Days, 2005
Director Gus Van Sant based this film on the last days of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. Though he had wanted to make a biographical film he decided to do a completely fictionalized story of the singer's final days out of the fear of being sued by Cobain's widow, Courtney Love.

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