REBELS WITHOUT CAUSES
	SYNOPSIS
	An R-rated, coming-of-age road movie, "Rebels without Causes" takes a cross country ride into manhood, families and the struggle to leave behind past trauma.
	Rebels' lead rebel is Jamie Person, a James Dean-esque 18-year old from an abusive family in Jersey. As Rebels begins, Jamie is kicked out of his house by his abusive father John. Eager to leave behind family and even friends, Jamie sees his banishment as an opportunity to head west to La Jolla and surf "real" waves.
	He leaves in his Mustang and heads west, however, his 12-year-old brother Billy stows away with him and isn't discovered until mid Pennsylvania. Jamie struggles with the idea of taking Billy back home, and resolves to do so despite the delay in his plans. Billy's emotional plea not to go back home changes Jamie's mind and the two brothers bond on the ultimate road trip.
	John Person is enraged about his youngest son's "abduction" and he and the police search for the boys' destination. That too comes into doubt as Billy's goals differ from his big brother's. Billy longs not for the ocean, but for the Wild West where he wants to be a cowboy. Instead the boys land in a strip joint in Pittsburgh where they meet "Kat" aka Katherine Walker, a too-good-for-the-joint stripper who also once ran away from home. Having put herself and her little brother through school by stripping, Kat now longs for a respectable life. Of course Jamie falls for her, but Kat's attraction to Jamie is strong as well. Plus she's concerned for little Billy and sees the dangers for him under Jamie's care. She resolves to join the boys on the road.
	The conflicts continue and the police threaten and the trio ends up broken down on the Mississippi River. Banished by Kat to the laundromat to experience "real life," Jamie meets Eddie B. Tall, a 4-foot-2 former orphan, current "small-time" con man with a desire to "turn legit." Eddie completes the new family and the foursome is soon flush with good feelings and cash from a Vegas score.
	With the cops and their parents in pursuit and the past threatening the foursome's dreams of the future, Jamie must decide what to do with his brother and how to resolve their conflicts. His ascent into manhood helps him to get the girl, save his brother and lead his new family to San Diego where he is finally, as the credits role, able to ride off into the Pacific sunset.
	A spiritual spawn of "Rebel Without a Cause" and "Fast Times at Ridgemont High," "Rebels without Causes" takes a new generation of angst-ridden teens on the ride of their young lives.