Is this a remake of Rumble Fish?

Rating: 8/10 (10 August 2000)

Edward Norton's most powerful role to date. Here is a truly fine actor with staying power.
The plot, while well visualized by director Tony Kaye, is fairly worn. Wised-up, reformed thug, tries to turn hero worshiping younger brother away from his, the older brother's, evil former ways. Sounds like something from Warner's 30s "reformed gangster" films.
Try Coppola's 1983 "Rumble Fish." Same general plot, with perhaps a little less transparency and predictability. Mickey Rourke and Matt Dillon are in the respective roles.
Compare.