Rumble Fish (1983)
68 %
Reviews Counted: 22 Fresh: 15 Rotten:7 Average Rating: 5.9/10
Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins
Synopsis: Francis Ford Coppola directs this stunning adaptation of the S.E. Hinton novel about coming of age in urban Oklahoma. Rusty James (Matt Dillon) is a troubled juvenile delinquent trying to live up to the legendary reputation of his older brother, Motorcycle Boy (Mickey Rourke). One night,... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Dennis Hopper, Diane Lane, Chris Penn
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Screenwriter: Francis Ford Coppola
Producer: Fred Roos, Doug Claybourne
Composer: Stewart Copeland
Screenwriter: Francis Ford Coppola
Producer: Fred Roos, Doug Claybourne
Composer: Stewart Copeland
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If Rumble Fish fails as a traditional movie about real people, it is beguiling as an exercise in hallucinatory style.
12/11/07
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A bit too over-stylized 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.
08/01/07
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.
02/09/06
An offbeat experiment that, while certainly not a brilliant movie, flies far more than it fails.
10/11/05
This is a movie you are likely to hate, unless you can love it for its crazy, feverish charm.
09/01/05
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An iconic outsider of 1980s teen cinema, Rumble Fish remains an intriguing anomaly on Coppola's chequered CV.
05/24/03
A number of the images in Rumble Fish are more memorable than the film is as a whole, sometimes for the wrong reasons.
05/21/03
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SUNDANCE: "Darwin" Actor Chris Penn Found Dead
posted by Jen Yamato January 25, 2006
Character actor Chris Penn was found dead Tuesday at a Santa Monica apartment. He was 43 years old.
posted by Jen Yamato January 25, 2006
Character actor Chris Penn was found dead Tuesday at a Santa Monica apartment. He was 43 years old.
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