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    Rumblefish (1983)

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    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.

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    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 Outsiders and Rumble Fish were shot back-to-back in Tulsa. Stewart Copeland (of The Police) composed the brooding score.

    Rusty-James
    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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