The Outsiders (1983)

Set in 1966; Produced and released in 1983.

Francis Ford Coppola's stylized teen melodrama is based on the popular novel by S. E. Hinton. In 1960s Tulsa, the "right" and "wrong" sides of the tracks are represented by rival gangs, the upscale Socs and the underprivileged Greasers. Darrel Curtis (Patrick Swayze) is doing his best to raise his two younger brothers, Sodapop (Rob Lowe in his first film role) and Ponyboy (C. Thomas Howell). Sensitive Ponyboy is a budding writer in love with Cherry (Diane Lane), the unobtainable beauty from the enemy gang. When Ponyboy's buddy, troubled Johnny Cade (Ralph Mac...
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chio), kills one of the Socs in self-defense, their friend Dallas (Matt Dillon) helps the two youths hide out in an abandoned country church. There they live as exiles from a society that doesn't want them. But not all is lost, when Ponyboy, Johnny, and Dallas save some children caught in a fire they become unlikely heroes.

The young cast is the jewel of this sensitive, moving film. Tom Cruise and Emilio Estevez play Greasers, and pop singer Leif Garrett plays rich-kid Bob. Dillon also starred that year in another S. E.Hinton adaptation directed by Coppola--the fascinating and extremely entertaining RUMBLE FISH.
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Teen rivalry in a small Southern town sets the stage for this dramatic interpretation of the novel by S.E. Hinton. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, The Outsiders tells the story of the ongoing conflict between the Greasers and the Socs in rural Oklahoma. C. Thomas Howell stars as Ponyboy, the youngest of three orphaned boys who pal around with the local hoods known as the Greasers. When Ponyboy and his friend (Ralph Macchio) get into a deadly confrontation one night, the two go on the run from the cops, and they grow up quickly and soon realize the insignificance of their petty posturing. Matt Dillon stars as th...
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e tough-as-nails leader of their group and Patrick Swayze appears as Ponyboy's oldest brother. A host of other 1980s Brat Pack celebs fill out the cast. Dillon later appeared in another Coppola adaption of a Hinton book, Rumble Fish.
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Darrel Curtis probeert zijn twee broertjes Sodapop en Ponyboy op te voeden. Ze behoren tot de Greasers, een jeugdbende in de jaren 60. Ponyboy wil schrijver worden en is verliefd op Cherry, behorend tot een vijandige bende, 'the Socs'. Als een vriend van Ponyboy, Johnny Cade, een lid van de vijanden vermoordt, schiet hun vriend Dallas hen te hulp en verbergt ze in een verlaten kerkje. Hier komen ze tot rust en realiseren zich waar ze eigenlijk mee bezig zijn in hun leven. Hoewel ze allen niet door de maatschappij zijn gewild, worden ze een soort van helden als ze een groepje kinderen redden uit een brand. Toch k...
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unnen ze het niet weerstaan eens en voor altijd de ruzie met de Socs uit te vechten.
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