<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed . Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise . (August 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed . Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise . (August 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> Behind the opening credits, the film opens on a suburban Los Angeles street with teenager Jim Stark (Dean) drunkenly lying down on a sidewalk . He is arrested and taken to the juvenile division of the police station for "plain drunkenness". At the station he meets John "Plato" Crawford (Mineo), who was brought in for shooting a litter of puppies with his mother's gun, and Judy (Wood), who was brought in for curfew violation (she was wearing a bright red dress with matching lipstick and was mistaken for being a streetwalker). The three each separately reveal their innermost frustrations to officers; all three of them suffer from problems at home: </P> <Ul> <Li> Jim feels betrayed and anguished by his constantly bickering parents, Frank (Jim Backus) and Carol (Ann Doran), but even more so by Frank's milquetoast attitude and failure to stand up to Carol and her mother, who lives with them . His frustrations are made manifest to officer Ray Fremick (Edward Platt) when Jim is released to their custody . </Li> <Li> Judy is convinced that her father (William Hopper) has callously withdrawn his affections from her because she's no longer a little girl, so she dresses up in racy clothes to get attention, which only causes her father to call her a "dirty tramp". </Li> <Li> Plato comes from a broken family . His father abandoned them when he was a toddler, and his mother is often away from home, leaving Plato in the care of his housekeeper . </Li> </Ul>

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