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Release Date: 1983

Cast: Matt Dillon, Dennis Hopper, Mickey Rourke, Diane Lane, Nicolas Cage, Michael Higgins, Tom Waits, William Smith, Diana Scarwid, Glenn Withrow, Chris Penn, Laurence Fishburne ...MORE

Cast: Matt Dillon, Dennis Hopper, Mickey Rourke, Diane Lane, Nicolas Cage, Michael Higgins, Tom Waits, William Smith, Diana Scarwid, Glenn Withrow, Chris Penn, Laurence Fishburne, Vincent Spano ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Crime Fiction, Coming of age, Teen, Black-and-white, Film adaptation

Rumble Fish is a 1983 film directed by Francis Ford Coppola. It is based on the novel Rumble Fish by S.E. Hinton, who also co-wrote the screenplay. The film centers on the relationship between Motorcycle Boy (Mickey Rourke), a revered former gang leader wishing to live a more peaceful life, and his younger brother, Rusty James (Matt Dillon), a teenaged hoodlum who aspires to become as feared as Motorcycle Boy. The film's marketing tagline was, "Rusty James can't live up to his brother's reputation. His brother can't live it down." Coppola wrote the screenplay for the film with Hinton on... MORE

Rumble Fish is a 1983 film directed by Francis Ford Coppola. It is based on the novel Rumble Fish by S.E. Hinton, who also co-wrote the screenplay. The film centers on the relationship between Motorcycle Boy (Mickey Rourke), a revered former gang leader wishing to live a more peaceful life, and his younger brother, Rusty James (Matt Dillon), a teenaged hoodlum who aspires to become as feared as Motorcycle Boy. The film's marketing tagline was, "Rusty James can't live up to his brother's reputation. His brother can't live it down." Coppola wrote the screenplay for the film with Hinton on his days off from shooting The Outsiders. He made the films back-to-back, retaining much of the same cast and crew. The film is notable , for its avant-garde style, shot on stark high-contrast black-and-white film, using the spherical cinematographic process with allusions to French New Wave cinema and German Expressionism. Rumble Fish features an experimental score by Stewart Copeland, drummer of the musical group The Police who used a Musync, a new device at the time. Rumble Fish was booed at the New York Film Festival. At the San Sebastian International Film Festival, it won the International LESS