In the second of Francis Ford Coppola’s youth problem pictures adapted from SE Hinton’s popular novels, Matt Dillon stars as a vulnerable teenager who idolises his elder brother, Mickey Rourke, a former gang leader.
Unlike Coppola’s more conventional The Outsiders(1983), this alienated teen allegory finds him pulling out all the stylistic stops.
The drama is extremely mannered and the symbolism is a touch overdone, but it’s a visually startling knockout, brilliantly filmed in moody black and white with some dashes of colour.
The Outsidersand Rumble Fish were shot back-to-back in Tulsa. Stewart Copeland (of The Police) composed the brooding score.
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Matt Dillon Motorcycle Boy
Mickey Rourke Patty
Diane Lane Father
Dennis Hopper Cassandra
Diana Scarwid Steve
Vincent Spano Smokey
Nicolas Cage B J Jackson
Chris Penn Midget
Laurence Fishburne Patterson
William Smith Biff Wilcox
Glenn Withrow Benny
Tom Waits
Director Francis Ford Coppola
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