Film Original Release Date: 1983 - Produced by Francis Ford Coppola
About the Book:
Rumble Fish was published in 1975.
Hinton was inspired to write it by a magazine photo she had saved since 1967of a boy on a motorcycle.
'Rumble Fish' was written on Thursday nights, because that was when her husband played poker.
The book has been done as a screenplay by several schools. View one school's production notes HERE
Awards won include:
ALA Best Books for Young Adults, 1975
School Library Journal Best Books of the Year, 1975
Land of the Enchantment Award, New Mexico Library Association, 1982
Interesting Tid-bits About the Movie:
Trivia from IMDb.com (updates to come as found)
Cameo: [S.E. Hinton] as a prostitute.
Matt Dillon had read the book a few years before doing the movie, and in an interview with S.E. Hinton, said that it was his favorite book. Hinton said that when someone told her that "Rumble Fish" was their favorite book, usually "they were in a reformatory".
A clock can be seen in every scene of this movie.
Author S.E. Hinton states that the script to this movie was written "on one of the first personal computers" in less than two weeks.
Francis Ford Coppola offered Diane Lane her role in this film while she was in the middle of working on his previous film, The Outsiders (1983).
