Rumble Fish

...he would get a fair shot from filmmakers who knew he was the nephew of Francis Ford Coppola. Though he worked with his uncle on "Rumble Fish," ''The Cotton Club" and "Peggy Sue Got Married," Cage made his own way, mixing things up with...

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...career as an amateur boxer, he studied acting and became one of Hollywood's biggest names in the Eighties, starring in films such as Rumble Fish, Angel Heart and 9½ Weeks. He couldn't put a foot wrong - then suddenly he couldn't put a foot...

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...taking on yet another greaser bad-boy part with Dallas Winston. He would make one more Hinton film, "Rumble Fish," paired again with "Outsiders" director Francis Ford Coppola. And while Matt has always been a movie star, the glow started to...

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...except about The Outsiders. When he read the book, he was moved and not only directed the film, he also adapted Rumble Fish into a movie the year after, again with Matt Dillon, Diane Lane, and Glenn Withrow. The actors playing the Socs...

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...a small role in Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate. After winning praise for his roles in Diner and Rumble Fish, he had his first starring role as an Irish tough in The Pope of Greenwich Village. His on-set behaviour while filming the erotic...

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...S acting career is the stuff of Hollywood. Starting out as a boxer he moved into acting and became an international star in films including Body Heat, Rumble Fish, Barfly, 9 1/2 Weeks and Angel Heart. He gave it all up to return to the ring in...

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...and Tom Cruise. Matt Dillon and several others also starred in Coppola's related film, Rumble Fish, which was also based on a S.E. Hinton novel and filmed at the same time as The Outsiders on-location in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Carmine Coppola...

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...66 and Brown Bunny fame (or infamy), in the title role. Coppola had written the part for Matt Dillon, his long-ago Rumble Fish star, but then there were scheduling conflicts. "I lost Matt Dillon, and someone down there in Argentina...

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Film adaptations of The Outsiders '' (1983) and ''Rumble Fish (1983), both directed by Francis Ford Coppola, established the careers of many film stars, such as Rob Lowe, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Tom Cruise, Diane Lane, Emilio Estevez,...

In this article: S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Film adaptations, Margaret A. Edwards Award, Will Rogers High School, Taming the Star Runner, and Tex

...also worked his eccentricities into stage and screen acting, starring in Jim Jarmusch's film "Down by Law" and Francis Ford Coppola's "Rumble Fish" and "The Cotton Club," to name a few, and later writing music for Robert Wilson plays.

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