1955 Directed by Nicholas Ray
After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark is supposed to have a clean slate, although being the new kid in town brings its own problems. While searching for some stability, Stark forms a bond with a disturbed classmate, Plato, and falls for local girl Judy. However, Judy is the girlfriend of neighborhood tough, Buzz. When Buzz violently confronts Jim and challenges him to a drag race, the new kid's real troubles begin.
James Dean Natalie Wood Sal Mineo Jim Backus Ann Doran Corey Allen William Hopper Rochelle Hudson Dennis Hopper Edward Platt Steffi Sidney Marietta Canty Virginia Brissac Beverly Long Ian Wolfe Frank Mazzola Robert Foulk Jack Simmons Tom Bernard Nick Adams Jack Grinnage Clifford Morris Almira Sessions Paul Birch Dorothy Abbott Jimmy Baird Paul Bryar John Close Chuck Hamilton Show All…
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Underdogs and coming of age Moving relationship stories school, teacher, student, classroom or kids surfing, teenager, friendship, adolescents or kids teenager, friendship, sad, adolescents or coming of age family, emotional, emotion, touching or kids gay, sexual, relationships, feelings or homophobic Show All…
james dean is not just a snack, he is breakfast, lunch, after lunch snack, dinner, after dinner snack, midnight snack, AND a glass of refreshing cold water at 4am
Rebel Without a Cause came along at just the right time for me. I was on the edge of seventeen, fresh off an emotional breakdown, that one undesired side-effect of first world privilege. I was unsure of what I wanted to do with my life and tortured by the realization that I was the only person responsible for myself. I had everything but still wanted something that wasn’t tangible or even describable.
The teenagers in Rebel Without a Cause were searching for the same thing, and as I watched the film, spellbound by their beauty and their pathos, they seemed to me to be the furthest thing from melodramatic, because they were fighting to regain their childhood innocence. Naturally, they…
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Kids near the edge of oblivion, peering down, eager to jump, only to turn away and reach out and grab a hand. The bright red color of Jim's jacket, or Judy's overcoat. How the whithered candles in the deserted mansion bring just about the only light in a vast sea of cold. Eventually to be replaced by police lights and sirens. The cosmic mundanity of tragedy, with the end of the world arriving at dawn.
film bros: james dean was a masc straight icon!
me and all the other gays: hmmm is he though?
if you think the silly melodrama of this is funny and ridiculous try watching it on the same day your beloved 10 years & 2 days old angel of a daughter throws herself on her bed while screaming "NOBODY CARES ABOUT ME!! I HATE MY LIFE!!" for the first time
