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1* AllStarCast: Creator/MattDillon, Creator/MickeyRourke, Creator/DianeLane, Creator/DennisHopper, Creator/NicolasCage, Creator/LaurenceFishburne.
2* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $10 million. Box office, $2,494,480.
3* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: Creator/FrancisFordCoppola named this as one of his favourite films of his own.
4* DeletedRole: Creator/HeatherLangenkamp played an extra in this movie but her scene was cut as was done in ''Film/TheOutsiders''.
5* GenreKiller: Whatever remaining remnants of the UsefulNotes/NewHollywood era that wasn't killed by ''Film/HeavensGate'' were killed by the failure of this.
6* ProductionNickname: The sound technicians on the film had a hard time hearing Creator/MickeyRourke's dialogue on set, often asking him to speak louder. As a result, the sound crew referred to the production as "Mumble Fish".
7* PromotedFanboy: 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".
8* RealLifeRelative: Creator/SofiaCoppola plays Creator/DianeLane's younger sister.
9* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
10** Creator/TomCruise had told Creator/FrancisFordCoppola that he wanted to work for him and take any role, so Coppola invited him to workshops and rehearsals for this movie which starred Matt Dillon but left after he was offered the lead in ''Film/RiskyBusiness''.
11** Creator/JackNicholson turned down the role of Father, because he didn't like the script.
12** Coppola invited film director Chris Marker to shoot second unit footage in Tulsa for the film. Marker ducked out because he found it that visually unappealing.

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