Rumble Fish
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.
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.
1983Rating: M94 minsUSA
CrimeDrama
- Director:
- Francis Ford Coppola ('The Godfather', 'Apocalypse Now', 'The Outsider')
- Writer:
- Francis Ford CoppolaS.E. Hinton
- Cast:
- Matt DillonMickey RourkeDiane LaneDennis HopperDiana ScarwidVincent SpanoNicolas CageChris PennLaurence FishburneTom Waits
Rumble Fish / Reviews
Time Out
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.
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If Rumble Fish fails as a traditional movie about real people, it is beguiling as an exercise in hallucinatory style.
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The New York Times
A number of the images in Rumble Fish are more memorable than the film is as a whole, sometimes for the wrong reasons.
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Roger Ebert
This is a movie you are likely to hate, unless you can love it for its crazy, feverish charm.
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Empire Magazine
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.
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