![]() ![]() ![]() But The Motorcycle Boy returns one day in the form of Mickey Rourke. As a result, Rusty James "can't live up to his brother's reputation.and his brother can't live it down," to quote the film's tagline. We are led to infer that The Motorcycle Boy was a sort of rebel hero - a type of Robin Hood, as Rusty James says - and the entire town loves him. Matt Dillon gives his best performance as Rusty James, a 1950s street punk whose alcoholic father has all but walked out on him, and whose older brother (an enigmatic figure known only as The Motorcycle Boy) has left and moved to California some time ago. ![]() It is the flip side to "The Outsiders" and in my opinion, the more mature work of the two (although both are very good). ![]() "Rumble Fish" has a lot of violence, a lot of swearing, and a decent amount of sex/nudity. His first ("The Outsiders") was cleaner than this. It was the second film he released in 1983 adapted from an S.E. It may not be a flawless masterpiece on the same level as the aforementioned movie or "The Godfather," or even "The Conversation" (one of his absolute best), but it's still very good - beautiful to look at, poetic, and visually stimulating. They say art films died out in the '80s, and they also say Francis Ford Coppola sold out after "Apocalypse Now," but this is truthfully his last visionary film. ![]()
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