Rumble Fish (1983 Film)

Rumble Fish is 1983 film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, and based on a novel of the same name by S.E. Hinton. The movie follows the story of a small gang. The cast includes several well-known stars, including Matt Dillon, Nicholas Cage, Mickey Rourke and Diane Lane. Rumble Fish won two awards from the San Sebastian International Film Festival. IMDB.com users rate this film a 7.1 out of 10 possible stars. The film grossed nearly $2.5 million at the box office.http://www.allmovie.com/work/rumble-fish-42295

Rusty James (Matt Dillon) is a member of a gang that is getting smaller. Rusty spends his day at the billiards hall waiting for something to happen. He hopes that his exiled brother (Mickey Rourke) known as "Motorcycle Boy" will return from California. Rusty wishes to be a great gang leader like his brother, able to get many followers and gets involved in a fight. "Motorcycle Boy" returns in the middle of the fight and stops the fight. Rusty is glad to have his brother back, but a local police officer (William Smith) is waiting for him to slip up. "Motorcycle Boy" has denounced his former ways and wants to not be involved. Rusty keeps on a destructive path and with his brother's help, learns to live a better way.

• Matt Dillon as Rusty James

• Mickey Rourke as Motorcycle Boy

• Diane Lane as Patty

• Dennis Hopper as Father

• Diana Scarwid as Cassandra

• Vincent Spano as Steve

• William Smith as Patterson

• Nicolas Cage as Smokey

• Laurence Fishburne as Midget

• S.E. Hinton as Prostitute in Street

• Herb Rice as Pool Player

• Tom Waits as Benny

"If Rumble Fish fails as a traditional movie about real people, it is beguiling as an exercise in hallucinatory style"— Richard Corliss, Time Magazine http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,926306,00.html

"A bit too over-stylized to allow for any great involvement, the most interesting part of this is spotting the young actors before they became stars -- most notably nephew-of-the-director Nicolas Cage." —Empire Magazinehttp://www.empireonline.com/reviews/reviewcomplete.asp?DVDID=117678

"This is a movie you are likely to hate, unless you can love it for its crazy, feverish charm." — Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Timeshttp://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19830826/REVIEWS/50826002/1023