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Name: Rebel Without a Cause
Released: 1955-10-29
Cast: James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Jim Backus, Ann Doran

Rebel Without a Cause

PG-13
1h 51m
1955

92%

age 13+

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James Dean stars in a movie that shocked the United States with a performance that still electrifies the screen twenty-five years after his untimely death prior to the film's release. In this archetypal drama of teenage angst and rebellion, three high school students who should lead idyllic lives in their stable, comfortable suburban families explode with a violence and sexuality that their parents cannot understand. This film--which ripped the façade from the post-war American dream to expose the rage of the country's youth--resonates with an energy that has made it a modern classic and a powerful coming-of-age story.

Director:

Nicholas Ray

Producer:

David Weisbart

Writer:

Stewart Stern, Irving Shulman, Nicholas Ray

Cast:

James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Jim Backus, Ann Doran, Corey Allen, William Hopper, Rochelle Hudson, Dennis Hopper

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

92%

Critics Consensus: Rebel Without a Cause is a searing melodrama featuring keen insight into '50s juvenile attitude and James Dean's cool, iconic performance.

Reviews

Reel Film Reviews

David Nusair

...an overwrought, unconvincing endeavor...

No other director knows how to give his characters so clearly the air of having a common genealogy. They are marked with the seal of the same fate, the same moral or physical disease that is not quite taint or decay.

To audiences who don't immediately connect with the rebellion and delinquency, the film becomes little more than an annoyingly blatant message about teenage defiance.

Possum's evocation of wrongness, that unbalancing feeling that something is off -- if only you could put your finger on it -- lingers long.

It contains some extraordinarily good acting by the late James Dean, Natalie Wood and Sal Mineo. The direction by Nicholas Ray is outstanding... This is a superficial treatment of a vital problem that has been staged brilliantly.

October 30, 2018

FULL REVIEW

Common Sense Media

age 13+

Common Sense Says

1950s James Dean teen-rage landmark still resonates.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that this landmark depiction of teen alienation and delinquency has plenty of don't-try-this-at-home moments, including knife fighting, gunplay, breaking-and-entering a disused house, a fatal game of "chicken" in stolen cars, and animal cruelty. Young people drink to inebriation and smoke. There is a link made between a single-parent household (actually less than that; never-seen mom lets the maid oversee things) and a loner mentally ill son.