Rebel Without a Cause Reviews and Ratings



  • November 15, 2009
    A true classic, who doesn't love this awesomely cute rebel eh?
  • November 11, 2009
    I could watch James Dean everyday all day, really I could.
  • November 3, 2009
    One of the best!! James Dean is amazing!!
  • November 1, 2009
    Need to re-watch. I don't remember this very well from the first time seeing it four years ago.
  • October 20, 2009
    Dos palabras, James Dean.
    Sin él la película no hubiera sido remotamente lo mismo. Aunque la trama tenia problemas y habían escenas mal pensadas, se tiene que tomar en cuenta lo importante que fue esta película para su generación y el impacto que tuvo. Nunca había visto actuar a ...( read more)Dean, y me sorprendió el carisma y encanto que tiene. Puedo entender finalmente porque es considerado un icono del cine.
  • October 18, 2009
    My my, I just can't stop loving James Dean (& with this iconic image)!!
    A Hollywood movie made in 1955 about coming-of-age adolescents, their dysfunctional families, juvenile delinquency, Oedipus Complex (as well as reverse power of father & mother figures), etc etc. Not a really...( read more) remarkable narrative piece but it certainly takes an important place in culture & Cinema history.
  • October 17, 2009
    Recommended by Arianeta
  • October 17, 2009
    ?You?re tearing me apart."
    "Rebel without a cause went where almost no Hollywood film had dared, exposing the anger and discontent beneath the prosperity and confidence of post-war America, picking at family values that dictated that happiness was best found in the nuclear famil...( read more)y's well-appointed suburban home. The alienated kids in Rebel were part and parcel of these homes -- angry, wounded animals who rejected the very comforts that were supposed to make America superior to the rest of the world. If the notion that comfortable, middle-class white kids could harbor such feelings of anger and nameless yearning wasn't discomforting enough, even more so was the notion that their parents were ill-equipped to understand or help them. From Plato's neglectful mother and father to Jim's ineffectual parents to Judy's pathologically repressed father, all of the film's parents are seen as people whose conformity to the values of 1950s society masks their own discontent and -- in the case of Judy's father and Plato's parents -- underlying deviance. Thus, the teenagers are not so much the problem themselves as heirs to the problems created by the older and supposedly wiser generation. I think that's Dean's finest film. His performance in this movie was amazing and established him as a legend and a myth Script was realy good with powerfull direction. Classic film"
  • October 13, 2009
    This was wonderful. I loved the plot: classic 50's rebellion with the new kid, the girl, the freak, etc. It was most definitely well-made, well-acted, and well-directed. James Dean was, of course, lovely. His charm and wit were projected onto the screen for the last time, and bes...( read more)t time. As an added bonus, he is ridiculously gorgeous!! So that makes the movie even more fabulous. Just wonderful. Classic.
  • October 2, 2009
    This movie reminded me a bit of The Outsiders mixed with West Side Story. It was just depressing and I didn't like how the two kids basically meet each other, the girl's boyfriend dies, and the very same night they "fall madly in love." It really doesn't make sense to me. James D...( read more)ean is a good actor though.
  • September 29, 2009
    He has trouble fitting in. Does that make him a rebel? In today's culture that just makes him an outcast. This movie wasn't at all as good as I thought it would be from James Dean's reputation of coolness. I saw this picture last of the three major movies he appeared in befor...( read more)e his death. I didn't like his agonized, constantly plagued by inner torment style of acting. Maybe I've been clueless all this time about why James Dean is really such an icon. Maybe growing up in the conservative environment that I did led me to envision the legacy of Dean, with his leather jacket and comb always handy, as not much different than Fonzie on Happy Days. I realize since I've seen his brief filmography of movies that this is not what he represents at all. He tried to copy Brando who told him once that he needed to seek psychiatric help. I'm going to be stereotypical here, but it seems obvious to me that James Dean was a closeted gay or bi-sexual youth. Maybe it is just his instinctual acting in this role particularly where he seems equally smitten with Natalie Wood and Sal Mineo. But is this his real legacy? Is he beloved and remembered by a certain part of the population and avoided by another part because of this part of him? Or is it simply because of his passionate, wild partying, risky, and cool life?
  • September 18, 2009
    James Dean gave a performance far away from my expectations. I didn't what to expect of this film since although I had heard about it before, I had no idea what it was about. I got a unique chance to catch this on TV, and I was pleasantly surprised. The plot is pretty amazing, an...( read more)d although some elemens of it are extremelly "50's" (can't blame it, right?), most of them are not. The script and the performances overall are fantastic and well developed. There's something about the way it was written and directed that made me love this film. Pretty awesome indeed.

    86/100
  • September 16, 2009
    Insightful film about teen angst and dysfunctional families, well ahead of its time. James Dean's performance elevates a decent film into classic status almost all by itself.

    The image of Dean in his red jacket is incredibly striking, even to this day. Sal Mineo is remarkable ...( read more)as troubled "Plato".
  • September 12, 2009
    First James Dean flick. Bit of a contrived plot, but the ending was rather good, not exactly what I expected from all that I heard about it over the years, but good regardless.
  • September 11, 2009
    All I can say is a true classic.
  • September 9, 2009
    As much as I like this movie, I somehow still prefer Dean's East of Eden. But damn, James Dean gave a great performance in here... not so crazy about the story though...
  • August 29, 2009
    It was good but I'm not sure what all the hype is about.
  • August 29, 2009
    There were a lot of movies released in the post war years about the generation that didn't really remember the Depression or War and was know living in a time of plentiful and peace their parents never knew. They could BE teenagers, they were young people who didn't have to work,...( read more) HS was now open to the public and they had time on their hands and that scared the crap out of the older generation. They didn't know how to relate AT ALL to this generation and they were REALLY reactionary to it.

    Than came along this little film which attempted to show just exactly the generation gap. This movie transcends "the kids aren't all right" and moves into the realm of "the parents aren't all right." Interesting enough in movies of the 50's it was parents who got the blame for the outcome of their kids- not pop culture/society.

    Natalie Wood steals the show as a girl who doesn't know how to handle her burgeoning sexuality (and a parental generation that wants to keep it down) and pissed at her father about it in a really awesome it's-not-there-because-of-the-production-code-but-it's-totally-what-they're-saying way.
  • August 24, 2009
    james dean is incredible here, but even better in east of eden.
  • August 16, 2009
    First film with my favourite actor in.
  • August 15, 2009
    James Dean saves this movie.
  • August 1, 2009
    Not what I expected.
  • July 29, 2009
    Memorable James Dean en un
    indiscutible clásico de los 50´s.
  • July 28, 2009
    Great performance by James Dean
  • July 18, 2009
    i seen this as a kid and few times sense really a good one
  • June 27, 2009
    Probably great back in the day - but i found it boring and inplausible
  • June 25, 2009
    If so many people can still relate to this movie (especially adults) with a passion, than America is truly FUCKED UP; insecure and lacking self-esteem.


    "The Public Sucks, Fuck Hope."
    - George Carlin
  • June 23, 2009
    James Dean has and always will be immortalized as troubled teen Jim Stark.
  • June 12, 2009
    The bluesprint for future teen movies.
  • June 9, 2009
    All the great ones always goes early
  • June 8, 2009
    Too bad we didn't go with that color choice, because it was spectacular.
  • June 7, 2009
    one of james dean besty movies
  • June 5, 2009
    James Dean at his posthumous best in a film that holds up 50 years later. That being said, I personally always favored Corey Allen's performance in the film. Buzz was truly the rebel without a cause that the film's title describes. I think you could sympathize with Jim but in tod...( read more)ays society he would be just another loner who really didn't see himself in one particular clique. Too strange to be cool and too cool to be a geek.
  • June 2, 2009
    They dont make these kind of movies anymore.
  • May 31, 2009
    When Acting was an Art! James Dean is my all time Favorite Actor!!!!
  • May 30, 2009
    Mixed messages, overwrought melodrama, hokum teen angst daddyo. James Dean made one good movie, East of Eden, and of course it's not on here.
  • May 25, 2009
    just curious about James Dean...
  • May 18, 2009
    Crazy--captures a lifetime's worth of material in only a 24 hour span.
  • May 9, 2009
    James Dean is an unbelievable actor. Basically his whole career consists of only three movies he acted in just right before his tragic death. Yet still, almost 50 years later people recognize his name and face. He's an icon of the 1950's and in the same line with Marilyn Monroe o...( read more)r Elvis Presley. That's simply miraculous, movie history knows no other example of anything like it. I personally consider Jimmy as one of my favorite actors too. Of course he is a sensational talent and maybe it's partly because he really had only three big performances so no one ever saw him actually doing something wrong, choosing a bad role or whatever. I personally think that James Dean would have been nearly as big if "Rebel without a cause" was his only movie. His devoted, stylish and touching larger-than-life performance as Jim Stark is just startling experience to watch. Legendary "Rebel without a cause" is a timeless drama and in many ways it's far from being old fashioned. It's moving, beautiful and incredibly impressive, the best movie of its decade and one of the best movies ever made. Period. 10/10.
  • May 7, 2009
    Rebel Without a Cause is brilliant. It story of teenage youth, lost and in trouble, holds up just as as well today as it did when released. Every one should see this at least once!
  • May 3, 2009
    Great performance of james Dean, but the movie was a let down...
  • April 28, 2009
    Jimmy Dean... what more do I have to say?
  • April 20, 2009
    Nicholas Ray is cinema!
  • April 7, 2009
    James Dean is the only person I could stand watching in this whole movie.
  • March 30, 2009
    I need to watch this again. I was very little when I watch this on TV.

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