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Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
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Reviews Counted: 43
Fresh: 41
Rotten:2
Average Rating: 8.2/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 27 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: The classic film about alienated and rebellious youth that made James Dean an indelible icon. "Rebel without a Cause" focuses on a teenage social outcast searching for his identity. His... The classic film about alienated and rebellious youth that made James Dean an indelible icon. "Rebel without a Cause" focuses on a teenage social outcast searching for his identity. His dysfunctional parents (a milquetoast father and a cantankerous mom) can't help him and he shuns any form of authority. The young man only finds solace in the company of two fellow teenage misfits, but even they aren't able to prevent tragedy from befalling this reckless and uncontrollable anti-hero. [More]
Starring: James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Jim Backus
Starring: James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Jim Backus, Dennis Hopper, Nick Adams, Jack Simmons, Marietta Canty
Director: Nicholas Ray
Director: Nicholas Ray
Producer: David Weisbart
Composer: Leonard Rosenman
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Reviews for Rebel Without a Cause
The drama and hepcat dialogue feel clunky now, but the movie's plea for dads to talk to their children -- what we now call emotional literacy -- is valid enough.
For all its faults this is still the teen angst melodrama to end them all, and Dean's performance established him as an icon, a legend and a myth.
In this powerful study of juvenile violence, Dean is riveting as a teenager groping for love from a society he finds alien and oppressive.
Here is a fairly exciting, suspenseful and provocative, if also occasionally far-fetched, melodrama of unhappy youth on another delinquency kick.
If ever a film was haunted, it's "Rebel Without a Cause," which burns as a bright memorial for stars James Dean, Natalie Wood and Sal Mineo.
Under Ray's dissecting eye, the suburban home itself becomes a battleground where parent and child must scream over each other to be heard
A fine script, dynamic direction, doomed romantic idealism and telling performances make this the most timeless of Ray's gripping, socially aware dramas.
Dean's finest film, hardly surprisingly in that Ray was one of the great '50s directors.
Like its hero, Rebel Without a Cause desperately wants to say something and doesn't know what it is. If it did know, it would lose its fascination.
People like to say that Dean was nothing but a Marlon Brando imitation, but Marlon never looked this young, this perfect.
When first released, neither studio nor critics knew what to make of it, failing to realize that it would become the most influential work in American film history
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