If Rumble Fish fails as a traditional movie about real people, it is beguiling as an exercise in hallucinatory style.
Rumble Fish
Rusty James can't live up to his brother's reputation. His brother can't live it down.
1983 · 1h 34m · R
Crime, Drama, Romance
Directed by
Francis Ford Coppola
Overview
Absent-minded street thug Rusty James struggles to live up to his legendary older brother's reputation, and longs for the days of gang warfare.
Director and cast
- Francis Ford Coppola Director
- Matt Dillon as Rusty James
- Mickey Rourke as The Motorcycle Boy
- Diane Lane as Patty
- Dennis Hopper as Father
- Diana Scarwid as Cassandra
- Vincent Spano as Steve
- Nicolas Cage as Smokey
- Chris Penn as B.J. Jackson (as Christopher Penn)
- Laurence Fishburne as Midget
- Michael Higgins Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Overwrought and overthought.
This is a movie you are likely to hate, unless you can love it for its crazy, feverish charm.
A number of the images in Rumble Fish are more memorable than the film is as a whole, sometimes for the wrong reasons.
The action is clotted and murky, and Coppola obviously hasn't bothered to clarify it for the members of his cast, who wander through the film with expressions of winsome, honest befuddlement.
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