Rebel Without a Cause (1955) - I Don’t Ever Wanna Be Like Him Scene (3/10) | Movieclips

Rebel Without a Cause movie clips: BUY THE MOVIE: Don’t miss the HOTTEST NEW TRAILERS: CLIP DESCRIPTION: Jim (James Dean) confides in the police chief (Paul Birch) about his embarrassment for his father’s passive behavior. FILM DESCRIPTION: As his parents bicker in a police station, teenager Jim Stark, played by James Dean, screws his face into a knot of frustrated rage and screams, “You’re tearing me apart!“ At that moment, Rebel Without a Cause changed the rules for the portrayal of teenagers on screen; Jim is neither a goofy-but-good-natured Andy Hardy type nor a Bowery Boys-style juvenile delinquent, but something resembling a real adolescent, awkwardly stumbling through young adulthood. We meet him lying in a gutter, drunkenly playing with a toy monkey before he’s picked up by the police. We learn that his parents have moved more than once because Jim has gotten into trouble; between hi
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