I'm not sure why you'd watch this movie. Coppola is a fantastic director, and he does a fine job here, filming in black and white to a quirky Stewart Copeland soundtrack. It's just too perfect.
Hinton was drafted to co-write the screenplay, and the script is a nearly word-for-word mirroring of the book's text. The action is, too, except the sordid details Hinton glosses in the book are blatant. Which isn't the main reason not to see Rumble Fish; the main reason is that Ford merely mimics onscreen what Hinton accomplishes so masterfully in her book.
And really, you can read the book in as much time as it takes to watch the film.
The one bonus about the movie: released in 1983, it includes a cast of up-and-comers like Mickey Rourke, Matt Dillon, Diane Lane, Nicolas Cage, Laurence (then Larry) Fishburne, and even Tom Waits, gloriously supplemented by a fine performance from Dennis Hopper as the drunk dad.
But seriously, don't bother. Read the book and watch some other movie by Coppola; The Conversation is always a good choice.
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