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Rebel Without a Cause is a 1955 American coming-of-age romantic drama film about emotionally confused suburban, middle-class teenagers. Filmed in the then recently introduced CinemaScope format and directed by Nicholas Ray, it offered both social commentary and an alternative to previous films depicting delinquents in urban slum environments.
Rebel Without a Cause: Directed by Nicholas Ray. With James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Jim Backus. A rebellious young man with a troubled past comes to a new town, finding friends and enemies.
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A rebellious young man with a troubled past comes to a new town, finding friends and enemies. Jim Stark is the new kid in town. He has been in trouble elsewhere; that's why his family has had to move before. Here he hopes to find the love he doesn't get from his middle-class family.
88% Audience Score 50,000+ Ratings. After moving to a new town, troublemaking teen Jim Stark (James Dean) is supposed to have a clean slate, although being the new kid...
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Jul 15, 2024 · Rebel Without a Cause, American film drama (1955), a classic tale of teenage rebellion, that featured James Dean in one of his final roles.
Jun 19, 2005 · Marlon Brando as a surly motorcycle gang leader in "The Wild One" (1953), James Dean in 1955, and the emergence of Elvis Presley in 1956: These three role models decisively altered the way young men could be seen in popular culture. They could be more feminine, sexier, more confused, more ambiguous.
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.
Rebel Without a Cause has withstood the test of time and remains one of the best films about teenagers in cinematic history. Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 18, 2023
Rebel without a Cause (1955) James Dean plays a troubled young man with much to prove in this iconic film. Rent on BFI Player £3.50. Ray’s eloquent use of architectural space in his epochal account of middle-class teenage angst reminds us that he’d studied under Frank Lloyd Wright.
