![]() ![]() It’s rather like an avant grade soap opera and is almost like a 50s throwback, yet is… 80s and then again is…. It’s very noirish in feel and language and much like the book, you dive right into the story where Rusty James is in a diner (run by a scatting Tom Waits) preparing to fight his nemesis Biff Wilcox. ![]() Interestingly Coppola wrote the screenplay for the film with Hinton on his days off from shooting another one of her books The Outsiders, making the films back to back and retaining much of the same cast and crew, particularly Matt Dillon and Diane Lane. The film centres on the relationships between Matt Dillon’s (supposedly 14 yr old) Rusty James and his family, including Rourke as his brother ‘Motorcycle Boy’, plus friends and alcoholic dad (Dennis Hopper). ![]()
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