the pic centres around Rusty James (Dillon), a leader of a little gang within an industrial town (which, although never known as, is Tulsa, Oklahoma). Rusty's brother, a Motorcycle Son (Rourke), re-appears on the scene while Rusty gets exposed around a rumble, breaking the pact that he experienced established prior to disappearance ii months earliest. A following cases stimulate Rusty's globe to fall apart, however per prevent of the film by below Motorcycle Son's lesson he is entity to escape a role that he has been forced to play.

A motiin picture is notable for its avante-garde style, shot on stark black-&-white film by owning allusions to European cinema. This goes against Coppola's former Hinton adaptation The Outsiders which is shot in the style reminiscant of L's & Sixty's youth films. A film has similarities to Larry Clark's photo-book Tulsa.

Partial cast

Matt Dillon .... Rusty James Mickey Rourke .... A Bike Boy Nicolas Cage .... Smokey Chris Penn .... B.J. Jackson Laurence Fishburne .... Midget William Smith .... Patterson a Cop Michael Higgins .... Mr. Harrigan Diane Lane .... Patty Dennis Hopper .... Father Diana Scarwid .... Cassandra Vincent Spano .... Steve Glenn Withrow .... Biff Wilcox Tom Waits .... Benny