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Rumble Fish
1983
Francis Ford Coppola directed this beautiful black-and-white version of S.E. Hinton's popular youth novel. RUMBLE FISH explores the relationship between a young street thug, Rusty James (Matt Dillon), and his older brother, the legendary Motorcycle Boy (Mickey Rourke). When Motorcycle Boy comes back to town, he finds Rusty .. Read more
| Starring | Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Dennis Hopper, Diane Lane |
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| Director | Francis Ford Coppola |
| Genres | Drama |
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Rumble Fish
Francis Ford Coppola directed this beautiful black-and-white version of S.E. Hinton's popular youth novel. RUMBLE FISH explores the relationship between a young street thug, Rusty James (Matt Dillon), and his older brother, the legendary Motorcycle Boy (Mickey Rourke). When Motorcycle Boy comes back to town, he finds Rusty James trying to imitate his former gang leader ways and their father (Dennis Hopper) trying to drink away a troubled past. The only color images in the film are the shots of the Siamese fighting fish that the color-blind Motorcycle Boy admires.
| Starring | Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Dennis Hopper, Diane Lane, Vincent Spano, Diana Scarwid, Nicolas Cage |
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| Director | Francis Ford Coppola |
| Studio | UNIVERSAL PICTURES UK |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 30 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Collections | 100 Eighties Greats |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 07 Jul 2003 Production year: 1983 |
| Format | DVD |
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In the second of Francis Ford Coppola's youth problem pictures adapted from SE Hinton's popular novels, Matt Dillon stars as a vulnerable teenager who idolises his elder brother, Mickey Rourke — a former gang leader. Unlike Coppola's more conventional The Outsiders, this alienated teen allegory finds him pulling out all the stylistic stops. The drama is extremely mannered, and the symbolism a mite overdone, but it's a visually startling knockout, brilliantly filmed in moody black and white with some dashes of colour. Stewart Copeland composed the brooding score.
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Shot back-to-back with The Outsiders, similarly based on a novel by SE Hinton, and signalled by Coppola as 'Camus for... read more on Time Out
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15 out of 15 people found this review helpful
Breathtakingly iconic
This is a full on masterpiece, made back-to-back with Coppola's adaptation of 'The Outsiders' also based on an SE Hinton teen novel with many of the cast doubling up. Unlike that film's rose-tinted view of youth 'Rumblefish' shows the dark side of teen city gangs, and is stunningly photographed in black and white with forced-perspective wide-angle-lens Expressionistic shots perfectly capturing an urban nightmare. There are plenty of moments of pure dream-like beauty, such as Rusty's out of body experience and his almost balletic fight that culminates with the return of his brother. The cast is amazing, almost everyone a star (and what a screwed-up family core of Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke and Dennis Hopper as Dad), and the dub-tinged music score by Stewart Copeland is awesome. Every single moment of this film is cool, although it was criticised on release for being overblown (it is quite deliberately and is all the better for it) and has since become almost a 'lost' classic. The Motorcycle Boy really does reign!
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Francis Ford Coppola directed this beautiful black-and-white version of S.E. Hinton's popular youth novel. RUMBLE FISH explores the relationship between a young street thug, Rusty James (Matt Dillon),... -