Has anybody ever seen a movie called Rebel Without A Cause?

Answer 1

Of course. It's a great classic. One of only three movies that James Dean was in. (The other two were "East of Eden" and "Giant".)

Answer 2

Classic movie made in 1955... JAmes Dean as Jim Stark

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.

Answer 3

Yes, classic James Dean teenage angst movie from the 1950s.

Answer 4

Yep, James Dean movie

Answer 5

Soul guy is a comedy action picture made in 1986 some guy who undergoes transracial transformation with pills to qualify for an affirmative action placement at Harvard regulation college. It stars C. Thomas Howell, Rae break of day Chong, James Earl Jones, Leslie Nielsen, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

Answer 6

Excellent movie with James Dean, Natalie Wood, and Sal Mineo. Interesting fact: movie was originally filmed in black and white then later they switched to color. I will not spoil it for you - watch it and you can see how it influenced a whole generation of film makers and actors.

Answer 7

Yes, it's my favorite movie... and actually James Dean died at age 24 and he died (1955) in a car accident after filming "Giant." East of Eden is another good movie of his....

Answer 8

I have never seen "Rebel", but know of it. I think that James Dean died doing it or had just finished it. Well, anyway, the man died at age 22 in '55.

Answer 9

Yes it is a good movie. There is a very good message in this movie.

Natalie Wood and James Dean in a screenshot from Rebel Without a Cause.Rebel Without a Cause is a 1955 film directed by Nicholas Ray that tells the story of a rebellious teenager who comes to a new town, meets a girl, defies his parents, and faces the local gang. It sought to portray the existing decay of youth in middle America, critique parental style, and expose the rift between two generations. The title is taken from psychiatrist Robert Lindner's 1944 book, Rebel Without A Cause: The Hypnoanalysis of a Criminal Psychopath but has no other relationship to the book.

The main plot centers around Jim Stark, a 17 year old. Stark and his two parents move to Los Angeles, where he enrolls at Dawson High School.

While trying to fit in at the school, he gets himself involved in silly games with a local bully and tough guy named Buzz Gunderson. While he tries to deal with Buzz, he becomes friends with a 13-year-old boy named Plato. Plato is very misguided in life, constantly getting into trouble and dealing with the police. He looks up to Jim as a role model, because his real father abandoned his family. Plato experiences many of the same problems as Jim, such as searching for a place in life and dealing with parents who "don't understand."

Jim meets a pretty girl named Judy who is also often in trouble with the police. She belongs to the gang of Buzz Gunderson. The thugs defy Jim to play "chicken" with Buzz, which means rushing with cars towards an abyss. The one who first jumps out of the car loses and deemed a chicken. The "game" foreseeably ends in tragedy and Jim has to flee from the gang. Judy and Plato join him in the garden of an abandoned villa, where they act out a sort of "fantasy family", with Jim as father, Judy as mother and Plato as child. The thugs soon discover them however and they have to flee again.

Plato hides in an observatory and Jim and Judy follow him. Jim gives Plato his red jacket. Plato has a gun but Jim looks at it and silently takes away the bullets. By this time, the police have surrounded the building. When Plato steps out of the observatory, they see the gun, he is then shot by the policemen. Jim Stark takes this very hard and his father finally understands him.

James Dean – Jim Stark
Natalie Wood – Judy
Sal Mineo – John "Plato" Crawford
Jim Backus – Frank Stark
Ann Doran – Mrs. Stark
Corey Allen – Buzz Gunderson
William Hopper – Judy's father
Rochelle Hudson – Judy's mother
Edward Platt – Ray Fremick
Nick Adams – Chick
Dennis Hopper – Goon
Jack Grinnage – Moose

Award nominations:
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor – Sal Mineo
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress – Natalie Wood
Best Writing, Motion Picture Story – Nicholas Ray
BAFTA Award for Best Film
BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor – James Dean

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebel_without_a_cause

Answer 10

Of course, I love James Dean :-)