This film was released in 1955 directed by Nicholas Ray stars James Dean, Natalie Wood and Sal Menio. they played the rolls of Jim Stark and Plato and Judy.
This film deals with a lot of teenage crisis /drama this movie is called by its name rebel without a cause because each of the three teenage characters are rebels. these three characters were thought as rebels because in the beginning of the film they was all in the police station. Judy was thought to be a prostitute for wearing red lipstick and being out past curfew. Plato killed a litter of puppies with his mothers gun. And Jim was brought in for being intoxicated, inebriated and for shorts drunk as a skunk. Jim gets into trouble with Judy's boyfriend and gang for being the new kid around they later do car racing where Judy's boyfriend dies by not getting off the car fast enough before driving off the cliff. Jim and his father were always arguing for his father not being really a man where his father was thought of being a in the feminine role in life. Jim felt that his mother and grandmother walked all over his father and wanted his father to stand up for himself which he never came to the accomplish in the course of the film. Jim is considering telling the police about Judy's boyfriend in the car racing because he wants to stand up for himself and be a man in the way his father hasn't been able to do.
Overall this film was about teenage crisis and drama about teens in the 1950's.
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