Rebel Without a Cause

Pros: James Dean, Natalie Wood, Great Story, Great film in every aspect
Cons: None

Way back in 1955, a little movie called Rebel Without a Cause hit mainstream America. The impact that it would end up having went further than it just being another movie, and it even ended up having a music video based on it come out in the early 90’s ...

Pros: James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Minio
Cons: Script, plot

Tonight, I took a ride on a time machine. No, I wasn't hallucinating on any funny controlled substance nor did H.G. Wells have anything to do with the travel. My home
town of Odessa, Texas celebrated the re-opening of a downtown theater which...

Pros: great mix of realistic issues and big Hollywood melodrama, well-composed script.
Cons: None, really, but surely more tame and subtle than gritty teen-issue flicks of today.

While Rebel Without a Cause seems to be mostly famous for its list of young stars who met tragic ends (not just James Dean, but also Natalie Wood and Sal Mineo), the movie itself was, for me, a grand and expert melodrama, one of the best. The film is ...

Pros: Excellent story, superb acting, JAMES DEAN, timeless quality
Cons: Distorted color at times, occasional over-dramatic acting by Natalie Wood.

Rebel Without A Cause (1955) Director: Nicholas Ray Writing: Nicholas Ray (story) Irving Shulman (adaptation) Length: 111 minutes Original Rating: USA:Not Rated; Re-release Rating (2005):PG-13 Film: Technicolor "Rebel. n. [L ...

Pros: It's all James Dean
Cons: dated concepts about teen angst

...when Rebel Without a Cause looks corny, over-done, and so filled to the brim with irrational teen angst that it's now meaningless to my mature collegiate mind.

At least, that's what I'd like to think, and not that this so-called...

Pros: Gives a pretty detail of teens in the 1950's, but kids are the same today.
Cons: Can't really see any

I am amazed when people say "Kids Today". That statement was made by Julius Ceaser 3000 years ago! Human nature is human nature, whether it be 1955 or 1979 or 2001. This movie may show you the behavior problems of kids in the 1950's, but if you think...

Pros: Issues that are still understandable and effective today, excellent acting on the part of James Dean and Natalie Wood, a good plot with excellent dynamic character development
Cons: I think a few of the lines were relevant in the 1950's, but now they don't really make sense.

A truly classic movie is one that transcends time and the changes it brings. A classic continues to change people, really deeply and profoundly affect them, as much or even more so than any movie put out today. Rebel Without A Cause is indeed a truly...

Pros: good acting on dean's part
Cons: lengthy, other actors do semi-good jobs

Apart from the physical talents of the actor, Dean’s ability to expose the weak, vulnerable side of Jim drew me to sympathize with him and convinced me that teen angst existed in all time periods, not just my own.

One of the qualities I...

Pros: Powerful, provoking and extremely relevant
Cons: Melancholy in tone, somewhat antique, 50's

Rebel without a Cause is a powerful statement of the 50’s youth culture. Though people were richer than ever and moving out to suburbs- getting new consumer goods such as television, some American intellectuals known as the beats criticized...

Pros: sets, costumes, cinematography
Cons: melodrama, characters, script

"Rebel Without a Cause" had an outstanding, if unfortunate, promotional gimmick. Young, charismatic lead James Dean, his star on the rise from his performance in the highly successful "East of Eden", died in a car accident less than...

Pros: The cast.
Cons: James Dean's coat.

Rebel Without A Cause is the movie that made James Dean a star. It's also
the first movie that defined what it means to be cool. The overall tone of
the movie is melancholy. Jim(James Dean) doesn't fit in at school. His
parents just don't...

Pros: Dean, Mineo, Wood
Cons: somewhat dated script

Rebel Without a Cause made quite a splash when it was released in 1955. Fat and happy in the postwar boom, American parents spent a lot of time patting themselves on the back for they way they were raising their kids. Then along comes a movie...

Pros: Dean's great acting
Cons: plot gets boring in the middle

Like The Wild One, Rebel Without a Cause was a key film for teens of the mid 1950’s. It articulated their complaint that adults did not understand them and affirms the belief that all adolescents are decent human beings whose lives have been wrecked by...

Pros: great actors, a classic
Cons: none

Rebel without a cause is a great movie. I had the chance to see it recently. It made me yearn for the tragic loss of the great actor James Dean. Also, it is kind of ironic because the character James Dean played was being reckless and careless with an...

Pros: James Dean, Natalie Wood and a band of rowdies
Cons: Some of it a little dated

Rebel Without a Cause is the original teen angst film. You’ll forget all about The Breakfast Club and Pump Up the Volume when you see a suit-clad James Dean get into a knife fight with an all-white gang outside a planetarium. In its quest to capture the...