RUMBLE FISH - Matt Dillon -DVD -R 2, 4 & 5-N&S-Never played!-Original Oz release

Description: MATT DILLON MICKEY ROURKE DIANE LANE DENNIS HOPPER NICOLAS CAGE AND TOM WAITS star in RUMBLE FISH DVD - Region 2, 4 and 5 - PAL - NEW and SEALED - Never played!! - M-rated - Colour - 1983-release - 94-minutes - Original DVD release in Australia Rusty James is the leader of a small, dying gang in an industrial town. He lives in the shadow of the memory of his absent, older brother - The Motorcycle Boy. His mother has left, his father drinks, school has no meaning for him and his relationships are shallow. He is drawn into one more gang fight and the events that follow begin to change his life. I saw Rumble Fish in a small a cinema in Dublin when it came out in 1983. It became a cult hit around town and was shown every Monday afternoon for for £1 for months. I bunked off work often to see it as did many people, I got to know. It's hard to say what made it quite so special, god knows I've tried over the years in those party / pub moments when the conversation is flagging and someone asks, 'what is your favourite film?' Obviously they want to know why when you come up with something they've never heard of, hate or are indifferent to. I read Susie Hinton's books afterwards and also sought out the Outsiders (also from a Hinton novel) which was made at the same time and was a good film with some of the wistful intensity of teenage life so strong in Rumble Fish but was like the straight, conventional brother by comparison. I think Susie Hinton went straight to Coppola's heart and she worked with him on the two films, even appearing in cameo in both. It is amazing to me that her books were marketed as teenage fiction, they are to my mind mature American fiction and transpose beautifully to the screen. The plot is a simple one and necessarily so yet the implications are universal. The style, camera-work, casting and soundtrack work together so well. I don't think that even in the Godfather Coppopla ever got it so right. The dreamy quality of the film, the distorted imagery and the fantastic soundtrack reflect the physical and mental damage suffered by the James family, Rusty's brain damage from one too many rumbles, Dad's alcoholism and the Motorcycle Boys colour blindness, depression and death wish. It's like an elegy for the old west and the constraints of small town life, John Ford meets David Lynch. It also marked the beginning of the end for Zoetrope studios and we'll never know what great movies we lost when that motorcycle gang left town.

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Location: Kingsgrove, New South Wales

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RUMBLE FISH - Matt Dillon -DVD -R 2, 4 & 5-N&S-Never played!-Original Oz release

Item Specifics

Restocking fee: No

Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer

Returns Accepted: Returns Accepted

Item must be returned within: 30 Days

DVD Edition Year: 1983

Signal Standard: Region 2, 4 and 5 - PAL

Video Format: PAL

Case Type: Tall / DVD Case

Former Rental: No

Rating: M

Subtitle Language: Arabic, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Leading Role: Diane Lane

Studio: Universal

Modified Item: No

Aspect Ratio: 16:9

Type: Dvd

Format: DVD

Region Code: DVD: 2 (Europe, Japan, Middle East...), DVD: 4 (AU, NZ, Latin America...), DVD: 5 (Russia, India, Africa...)

Language: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish

Release Year: 1990

Actor: Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Diana Scarwid, Vincent Spano, Nicolas Cage, Diane Lane, Dennis Hopper

Features: Cult, Deleted Title