Rumble Fish
(1983)Rusty James can't live up to his brother's reputation. His brother can't live it down.
Francis Ford Coppola co-writes and directs Matt Dillon and Mickey Rourke in this crime drama that serves as a companion piece to The Outsiders.... More
Rusty James (Dillon) is an absent-minded thug who struggles to live up to his legendary older brother's (Rourke) reputation, while longing for the days of gang warfare.Hide
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Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
Starring Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Diane Lane, Dennis Hopper, Diana Scarwid, Vincent Spano, Nicolas Cage, Chris Penn, Laurence Fishburne, Tom Waits
Written by Francis Ford Coppola, S.E. Hinton (based on his novel of the same name)
Produced by Doug Claybourne, Fred Roos
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This is a movie you are likely to hate, unless you can love it for its crazy, feverish charm. Full Review
A bit too over-stylised to allow for any great involvement, the most interesting part of this is spotting the young actors before they became stars -- most notably nephew-of-the-director Nicolas Cage. Full Review
A number of the images in Rumble Fish are more memorable than the film is as a whole, sometimes for the wrong reasons. Full Review
If Rumble Fish fails as a traditional movie about real people, it is beguiling as an exercise in hallucinatory style. Full Review
Coppola's recent viewing seems to have been German silent films of the '20s, so he has decided to coat the whole enterprise in a startling Expressionist style, which is very arresting but hardly appropriate to the matter in hand. Full Review
Overwrought and overthought. Full Review
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