Francis Ford Coppola directs this stunning adaptation of the S.E. Hinton novel about coming of age in urban Oklahoma. Rusty James Matt Dillon is a troubled juvenile delinquent trying to live up to the legendary reputation of his older brother, Motorcycle Boy Mickey Rourke. One night, while Rusty James and his friends Smokey Nicolas Cage, Steve Vincent Spano and B.J. Christopher Penn are involved in a rumble, Motorcycle Boy returns home from California after a two-month absence. After Motorcycle Boy reveals some family secrets about their mother, both brothers become determined to escape their lives or die trying.