Rebel Without a Cause

Rebel Without a Cause

James Dean's second movie and the defining moment of teenage existentialism with its insecurity, confusion, isolation and vulnerability. Deal excels in Nicholas Ray's prescient dissection of emerging youth culture as a new boy Jim Stark making the painful journey from casual delinquency to determined commitment via dysfunction, death,

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James Dean’s second movie and the defining moment of teenage existentialism with its insecurity, confusion, isolation and vulnerability. Deal excels in Nicholas Ray’s prescient dissection of emerging youth culture as a new boy Jim Stark making the painful journey from casual delinquency to determined commitment via dysfunction, death, and dispair.

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