Rumble Fish (1983)
Country: US
Technical: bw 94m
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Cast: Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Diane Lane, Dennis Hopper
Synopsis:
Rusty James lives in the shadow of his older brother, the Motorcycle Boy, and longs for the days of all-out gang warfare to give his life meaning.
Review:
A great performance from Rourke, before he slipped into self-parody, and eye-catching visuals (the fish are in colour), do not quite a great movie make, though this companion piece to The Outsiders, also based on an S.E. Hinton novel, is at least more distinctive in its arthouse-y mode. Dillon's character is in the habit of uttering the word 'man' at the end of every line, which grates after a while, but is an apt reflection of the film's rather jejune argument: the mother leaves, the dad drinks, so the youth goes to bad. Well!
Country: US
Technical: bw 94m
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Cast: Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Diane Lane, Dennis Hopper
Synopsis:
Rusty James lives in the shadow of his older brother, the Motorcycle Boy, and longs for the days of all-out gang warfare to give his life meaning.
Review:
A great performance from Rourke, before he slipped into self-parody, and eye-catching visuals (the fish are in colour), do not quite a great movie make, though this companion piece to The Outsiders, also based on an S.E. Hinton novel, is at least more distinctive in its arthouse-y mode. Dillon's character is in the habit of uttering the word 'man' at the end of every line, which grates after a while, but is an apt reflection of the film's rather jejune argument: the mother leaves, the dad drinks, so the youth goes to bad. Well!
Country: US
Technical: bw 94m
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Cast: Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Diane Lane, Dennis Hopper
Synopsis:
Rusty James lives in the shadow of his older brother, the Motorcycle Boy, and longs for the days of all-out gang warfare to give his life meaning.
Review:
A great performance from Rourke, before he slipped into self-parody, and eye-catching visuals (the fish are in colour), do not quite a great movie make, though this companion piece to The Outsiders, also based on an S.E. Hinton novel, is at least more distinctive in its arthouse-y mode. Dillon's character is in the habit of uttering the word 'man' at the end of every line, which grates after a while, but is an apt reflection of the film's rather jejune argument: the mother leaves, the dad drinks, so the youth goes to bad. Well!