Matt Dillon

Mickey Rourke

Diane Lane

Dennis Hopper

Diana Scarwid

Vincent Spano

Nicolas Cage

Chris Penn

Laurence Fishburne

William Smith

Michael Higgins

Glenn Withrow

Tom Waits

Herb Rice

Maybelle Wallace

Nona Manning

Sofia Coppola

Gian-Carlo Coppola

S.E. Hinton

Emmett Brown

Tracey Walter

Lance Guecia

Bob Maras

J.T. Turner

Keeva Clayton

Kirsten Hayden

Karen Parker

Sussannah Darcy

Kristi Somers

Francis Ford Coppola

Dean Tavoularis

Richard Beggs

Fred Roos

Barry Malkin

Doug Claybourne

Stephen H. Burum

Stewart Copeland

August Coppola

Robert Randles

Daniel R. Suhart

Marjorie Bowers

Thomas M. Hammel

Edward Beyer

Laurel Walter

Dustin Blauvelt

James Zenk

Tim McNally

Dennis Gassner

Robert C. Goldstein

Kurt Ehlers

John Robert Askew

Steven Hiller

Allan Kuhn

Jeff Block

John J. Rutchland Jr.

Maurice Schell

Douglas

Ernest Misko

C.J. Appel

Marissa De Guzman

Janet Hirshenson

Jeff Kennemore

Dennis Dion

Kevin Lee

Tom Bellfort

Buddy Joe Hooker

Sandy King

Nick F. Caprarelli

Randy Thom

William Jakubecy

Mark Rathaus

Lou Tobin

Ben Beaird

Bill Fleming

John J. Rutchland III

Robert Spurlock

Larry Lydia

Corky Coble

Richard Fitzgerald

Sue Belknap

David Parker

Martin Bresin

John O'Connell

Billy Hank Hooker

David Valdes

Mark Radcliffe

Teri Fettis-D'Ovidio

Ted Bokhof

Mary Swanson

John Englert

James Austin

Alex Skvorzov

Michael Jacobi

Roman Coppola

Leslie Shatz

Paul Tompkins

Donald Elmblad

Susan Mills

Peter Tothpal

Jack Bauer

Joseph W. Hunt

Tim A. Davison

Freddie Hice

Dick Ziker

Crime

Drama

Rumble Fish

American Zoetrope

Hotweather Films

United States of America

English

_**Artsy flick about lost souls wandering the city in the Midwest, trying to find answers**_

In the Tulsa area, a teen delinquent (Matt Dillon) idolizes his charismatic older brother (Mickey Rourke), who had left the area a couple months prior. When his sibling suddenly returns he’s no longer interested in gangs or rumbling. They wander the town with their pal (Vincent Spano) hanging out at various places trying to find meaning and purpose.  

The peripheral cast includes Diane Lane, Dennis Hopper, Diana Scarwid, Nicolas Cage, Laurence Fishburne and William Smith with Sofia Coppola as the little sister.    

Filmed in B&W, “Rumble Fish” (1983) was the second of two flicks based on SE Hinton’s young-adult novels shot back-to-back by Francis Ford Coppola. The first one was “The Outsiders” (1983) and it was successful at the box office while this one failed to draw an audience. Unlike “Outsiders,” which takes place in 1965, this one is set in the modern day, 1982, the time of shooting (or at least the late 70s). Hinton, by the way, has a cameo as the hooker on the strip that propositions Rusty James (Dillon) and Steve (Spano).

She was only 16-17 when she wrote “The Outsiders” and so that movie is from the perspective of a mid-teenager. By contrast, she was in her mid-20s when she wrote “Rumble Fish” and this is also reflected in the corresponding movie: The Motorcycle Boy (Rourke) has grown-up and is no longer interested in juvenile delinquency, which confuses Rusty James. 

Both “The Outsiders” and “Rumble Fish” are arty, but this one is more so. It’s a mix of “The Outsiders” and Coppola’s experimental “One from the Heart” (1981), along with bits of “The Warriors” (1979) and “Grease” (1978). Like “One from the Heart,” the story is very basic while the filmmaking is highly stylized, which results in a beautiful film that’s entertaining on a visual & audio level, but not very absorbing story-wise.

What’s it all about? Some answers include: The challenge of unconventional people in a conventional world, living in someone’s shadow, the cult of personality, growing up while simultaneously giving up childish things, setting others free, how envy murders others (figuratively or literally), the potential corruption of authority, the resultant injustice and sacrificing oneself for loved ones.

I can’t close without noting how Cage is in the prime of his life and surprisingly good-looking (speaking as a staunch heterosexual). Not that he later became Quasimodo, but I never viewed him as a handsome actor, like say George Clooney.     

The film runs 1 hour, 34 minutes, and was shot in the Tulsa area, as was “The Outsiders.”

GRADE: B-

Matt Dillon and Diane Lane on RUMBLE FISH

Richard Linklater presents Francis Ford Coppola's RUMBLE FISH at the Marchesa

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