Rumble Fish

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Rusty James, an absent-minded street thug, struggles to live up to his legendary older brother's reputation and longs for the days when gang warfare was going on.

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1 Review

RealEmirHan
88 Overall— Screenplay88 Acting— Cinematography— Production— Concept88 Story— Dialogue— Characters— Musical Score— Uniqueness— Entertaining

Francis Ford Coppola at his best. “Rumble Fish” abandons plot for feeling, turning adolescence into myth and memory into poetry. Mickey Rourke carries an Albert Camus–like existential weight.. detached, restless, and painfully aware of life’s emptiness.

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Rumble Fish (Francis Ford Coppola, 1983) Theatrical Trailer
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