Rusty James is an up-and-coming street hoodlum, lamenting the salad days of the gangs when his older brother, The Motorcycle Boy, ran things as President of the Packers. Before disappearing two months earlier, Motorcycle Boy outlawed gang wars, or "rumbles," by a treaty. When Rusty James breaks the treaty in a fight with Biff Wilcox, and gets seriously hurt, his brother suddenly appears. Distracted, delusional and enigmatic, his brother seems haunted and disinterested in his past as a "n

Rusty James can't live up to his brother's reputation. His brother can't live it down.

eighborhood novelty." Over the next few days, James' dead end life of posturing seems to fall apart; he loses his girlfriend, his friends, his own sense of confidence. The future looms like a dark, unknown wall locking James in. Through Motorcycle Boy's example, he finally learns to break free from others' expectations, and his own inner demons.

Academy award-winning director francis ford coppola's visually stunning adaption of the s . E . Hinton novel . Starring teen heartthrobs matt dillon and mickey rourke as two brothers whose desire to break out of their urban trap eventually leads to the death of one and a new beginning for the other . Photographed in black and white with color sequences, the striking production features a brilliant supporting ca

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