Rebel Wwithout a Cause is a 1955 drama/teen film starring James Dean (Jim Stark), Natalie Wood (Judy), Sal Mineo (John "Plato" Crawford), Dennis Hopper (Goon), and Corey Allen (Buzz Gunderson).
The film starts off with the main character Jim walking around town [more precisely lying on the pavement playing with a toy monkey holding cymbals] being drunk. He ends up in the police station where his parents are called and argue with him at the police station. The police chief pulls Jim into his office and tells him to hit him. Jim instead starts hitting the desk. At the police station Jim also see's Judy and Plato. Judy gets beat at home [is this accurate?] because her dad doesn't like that she is becoming a women and Plato is only cared for by his family's housekeeper.
Soon Jim and Plato become friends and try to help each other out. On a school field trip Jim is harassed by the school "cool kids" because Jim offered Judy a ride to school. Jim and Buzz Gunderson get into a knife fight where Jim wins but doesn't leave the fight without a few cuts. Buzz challenges Jim to a race and Jim accepts the challenge. At the race Jim wins because Buzz got stuck on the door and eventually drives off of the cliff to his death. Everyone at the scene of the death leaves as quick as they can.
Jim ends up getting with Judy after the death of Buzz. Jim gets into a fight with both of his parents while trying to leave the house. Jim also soon finds out that Plato is planning to do something very terrible. Jim tries to stop Plato along with Plato's housemaid. Buzz's friends go looking for Jim but kidnap and torment Plato instead. Once Plato wakes up he shoots one of the boys. Jim and the police arrive to the scene shortly after. Jim and Plato walk out of the building. Jim tells the police that Plato has an empty gun but they shoot and kill Plato anyways. The movie then ends.
This movie was bad in my opinion but it is one of the better late 1900's movies. It has some goods things but I think it doesn't have a good story.
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