The young and the restless movie review
James Dean's rebel teen Jim Stark represented the restless youth of the 1950s in "Rebel Without a Cause." “You’re tearing me apart! You say one thing, he says another, and everybody changes back again.” James Dean shouts these words in an anguished howl that seems to owe more to acting class than to his character, the rebellious and causeless Jim Stark in “Rebel Without a Cause.” Because he died in a car crash a month before the movie opened in 1955, the performance took on an eerie kind of fame: It was the posthumous complaint of an actor widely expected to have a long and famous career. Only “East of Eden” (1954) was released while Dean was alive; “Giant,” his last film, came out in 1956. And then the legend took over. The film has not aged well, and Dean’s performance seems more like marked-down Brando than the birth of an important talent. But “Rebel Without a Cause” was enormously influential at the time, a milestone in the creation of new idea about young people. Marlon Brando as