Rumble Fish

1983

94 mins

Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
76%
80%
Drama

Francis Ford Coppola co-writes and directs Matt Dillon and Mickey Rourke in this crime drama that serves as a companion... More

Francis Ford Coppola co-writes and directs Matt Dillon and Mickey Rourke in this crime drama that serves as a companion piece to The Outsiders.

Rusty James (Dillon) is an absent-minded thug who struggles to live up to his legendary older brother's (Rourke) reputation, while longing for the days of gang warfare.

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Rumble Fish | Ratings & Reviews

76_%38 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes® rating
80_%23,563 reviews
Audience score rating

"Overwrought and overthought."

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Variety

"Coppola's recent viewing seems to have been German silent films of the '20s, so he has decided to coat the whole enterprise in a startling Expressionist style, which is very arresting but hardly appropriate to the matter in hand."

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Time Out

"If Rumble Fish fails as a traditional movie about real people, it is beguiling as an exercise in hallucinatory style."

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Time Magazine

"A number of the images in Rumble Fish are more memorable than the film is as a whole, sometimes for the wrong reasons."

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The New York Times

"This is a movie you are likely to hate, unless you can love it for its crazy, feverish charm."

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Roger Ebert

"A bit too over-stylised 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."

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