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Rebel Without A Cause
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. Though he finds some of this in his relation with Judy, and a form of it in both Plato's adulation and Ray's real concern for him, Jim must still prove himself to his peers in switchblade knife fights and 'chickie' games in which cars race toward a seaside cliff.
6 March 1916, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
5 November 1945, Seattle, Washington, USA
16 September 1888, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
12 January 1916, New Rochelle, New York, USA
14 February 1916, Richmond [now Staten Island], New York City, New York, USA
1 June 1921, Hollywood, California, USA
20 January 1931, Los Angeles, California, USA
28 July 1911, Amarillo, Texas, USA
January 1, 1905 in Mississippi, USA
7 August 1911, Galesville, Wisconsin, USA
10 July 1931, Nanticoke, Pennsylvania, USA
30 September 1905, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
5 May 1908, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
13 January 1912, Atmore, Alabama, USA
June 2, 1915 in Brooklyn, New York, USA
June 20, 1923 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
September 18, 1918 in Macon, Georgia, USA
10 October 1931, Berlin, Germany
26 February 1905, Chelsea, Massachusetts, USA
April 14, 2014
Nicholas Ray's 1955 film extends sympathy to all its characters, not just the kids, though the central trio of Dean, Natalie Wood and Sal Mineo focus our emotions.
August 20, 2013
[VIDEO ESSAY] "Rebel Without a Cause" (1955) is a pivotal film for many reasons - each as important as the next.
May 20, 2003
There are some excruciating flashes of accuracy and truth in this film.
April 18, 2014
Looks and sounds so good it makes your heart thump.
June 08, 2010
1950s James Dean teen-rage landmark still resonates.
October 23, 2007
Here is a fairly exciting, suspenseful and provocative, if also occasionally far-fetched, melodrama of unhappy youth on another delinquency kick.
April 14, 2014
A mighty, ageless jolt of teen petulance. Dean is supreme.
January 01, 2000
An indelible vision of a pretty 1950s America with a searing crack in it.
February 09, 2006
Dean's finest film, hardly surprisingly in that Ray was one of the great '50s directors.
October 23, 2007
An unmissable film, made with a delirious compassion.
January 20, 2006
Like its hero, Rebel Without a Cause desperately wants to say something and doesn't know what it is. If it did know, it would lose its fascination.