Rumble Fish
“Rusty James can't live up to his brother's reputation. His brother can't live it down.”
Absent-minded street thug Rusty James struggles to live up to his legendary older brother's reputation, and longs for the days of gang warfare.
Genres
Crime, Drama, Romance
Studio
American Zoetrope
Language
en
Status
Released
How Rumble Fish performed
Budget
$10.0M
Worldwide Gross
$2.5M
Gross Profit
−$7.5M
Return
0.2× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$419K
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~48/52, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (35% of the domestic run, typical for Crime) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Rusty James
Matt Dillon
Rusty James
The Motorcycle Boy
Mickey Rourke
The Motorcycle Boy
Patty
Diane Lane
Patty
Father
Dennis Hopper
Father
Cassandra
Diana Scarwid
Cassandra
Steve
Vincent Spano
Steve
Smokey
Nicolas Cage
Smokey
B.J. Jackson
Chris Penn
B.J. Jackson
Midget
Laurence Fishburne
Midget
Patterson the Cop
William Smith
Patterson the Cop
Mr. Harrigan
Michael Higgins
Mr. Harrigan
Biff Wilcox
Glenn Withrow
Biff Wilcox
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