His hero is his older brother, Motorcycle Boy ( Mickey Rourke), who has just returned from California to teach Rusty James some of the sad lessons of life. Their hero is Rusty James ( Matt Dillon), a young, handsome, doomed gang leader. They're clones from “Blackboard Jungle” and all the punk gang images in dozens of other films. The teenagers in the movie inhabit an unnamed big American city, perhaps in the 1950s. Piranhas as teenagers: Original, but it works. That's a nice triple-play in the symbolism department, giving us the colors of the flag, the fishbowl of adolescence, the built-in urge to fight, and the danger of going belly up if you're removed from your environment.
Hinton is a brilliant novelist.The film is all in black and white, except for a couple of piranha in a fish tank at the pet store they're red and blue. "Hinton, on her own turf, is still unbeatable." - Kirkus Reviews
"Sharper in focus and more mature in style than Hinton's The Outsiders." - Booklist This edition includes an exclusive Author's Note.Ī School Library Journal Best Book of the Year Like Hinton's groundbreaking classic The Outsiders, Rumble Fish was adapted into a movie by Francis Ford Coppola and remains as relevant as ever in its exploration of sibling relationships, the importance of role models, and the courage to think independently. Then one day Rusty-James' world comes apart, and the Motorcycle boy isn't around to pick up the pieces. Whenever Rusty-James gets in over his head, the Motorcycle Boy has always been there to bail him out. He's proud of his reputation, but what he wants most of all is to be just like his older brother, the Motorcycle Boy. Rusty-James is the number one tough guy among the junior high kids who hang out and shoot pool at Benny's. From the author of the international bestseller The Outsiders comes a "stylistically superb" novel that "packs a punch that will leave readers of any age reeling" (SLJ, starred review).
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