Rumble Fish is the story of Rusty-James (Matt Dillon), a teenager who is the younger brother of neighborhood legend The Motorcycle Boy (Mickey Rourke). When his elder brother disappears, Rusty-James loses his rudder and begins to careen through life looking for the fight that will make it all make sense. He drags what is left of his big brother's gang, Smokey (Nicolas Cage), B.J. (Chris Penn), Midget (Larry Fishburne), and Steve (Vincent Spano), through his existential crisis as he attempts to reconcile his own inability to connect with the world through acts of violence. The one thing that almost keeps him grounded is his on-again-off-again relationship with Patty, a student at an all-girls school in the neighborhood.
When The Motorcycle Boy returns after a long disappearance, Rusty-James begins to regain his mojo, thinking that the life he'd lived before would make a comeback and he and the gang would go on as if nothing ever happened. What he doesn't realize is that while he is looking for truth in the glory of the past, everyone around him has moved on into a future that looks a lot different, including and especially his big brother.
LIttle by little Rusty-James' life starts to come apart as the world he knows goes on without him, no matter how hard he tries to make it stop. The Motorcycle Boy tries to protect him from himself, but Rusty-James just won't listen and it takes a shocking act of violence to wake him up.
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