The elusive butterfly has just tiptod past my door...

[classicdrogn]

Or, you know, a vague memory is bedeviling my brain. Something like that.

See, there was a movie. I was sure Joan Jett was the female lead and the title was _Light of Day_ but that is a completely different movie, despite the lead looking and sounding like her, and the song _Light of Day_ being the theme for the ending credits. The opening credits are her, with a bunch of stuff strapped to the top of her car, singing (synched to by the character on screen) "Start spreadin' the news/I'm leavin' today/I've had enough of all the shit/in old New York" etc. but she gets caught in traffic in a tunnel under the river, and then... something or other goes wrong, and the tunnel starts to flood. She and several others then have to fight through the rising waters to get into a maintanaince tunnel or a bunkhouse used when it was under construction or something, and then escape... I don't remember exactly. I really remember it being a vehicle for Joan Jett to be a tough cookie and several of her songs to be played, which is why it's really annoying that no such movie appears in her IMDB listing, nor the Wikipedia bio.

WHAT WAS THE MOVIE, AND WHO WAS THE ACTRESS!?

Please help before I need to choose between a bottle in fronta' me and the other thing.
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows

[s3yang]

Only movie I could find with a vaguely similar premise (Flooded tunnels) is called 'Daylight'. The female lead is also in the process of moving out of new york when she gets trapped. I don't know about any of the songs though. (This is all through google fu, haven't seen the movie)
Edit: Just found the script for the movie. It is in fact, the movie you're looking for:
http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scri ... llone.html
Script has the snippet of song you described.
I think you may have projected the joan jett songs onto it though, as the movie has a largely original soundtrack.

[classicdrogn]

... I have no idea how you turned that up, but thank you. It may have been I thought it would have been better with Joan Jett... or that _Light of Day_ would have fit it... or just that I got a couple of her albums around the same time I saw it. That's definitely the right one, though, thanks.
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows

[robkelk]

Well, what are the odds that somebody would conflate Light of Day and Daylight, anyway? (Pretty good, I'd guess.)
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012