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Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Writers: Kathleen Rowell(screenplay), S.E. Hinton (novel)
Cast: C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio
Genre: Drama
The Outsiders is a novel that every high school kid use to have to read as part of English/Literature class. I don't know about today, but in past years every teenager had read this novel. The novel itself was written by a high school girl, Susan Hinton who published her smash hit book under the name of S.E. Hinton.
The Outsiders, the movie is about a rivalry between two social status gangs. The poor kids are the Greasers, and the rich kids are the Socs (socialites). For the most part they insult one another and that's it. But after a group of Socs go after two young Greasers and one of the Socs gets killed in a fight, things get intense...and the two greasers must skip out of town.
Francis Ford Coppola, directed this heartfelt film and shot on location in Tulsa, Oklahoma. At the same time he was shooting The Outsiders he also shot Rumble Fish, another film based on a S.E. Hinton novel.
The Outsiders is the more accessible of the two films and that's thanks to a strong and personable cast of young upcoming actors that included: C. Thomas Howell, Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, Matt Dillon, Tom Cruise, Patrick Swayze, Ralph Macchio, and Diane Lane.
The strong part of the film is the story of the two youngest Greasers who go on the run after one of them kills a Soc in self defense. Their scenes in the old abandoned church along with Matt Dillion's wiser/older guidance, was very touching. Even more touching was the hospital scene that focuses on the one boy who gets badly burned.
They don't make them like this anymore.
The Outsiders (1983)
Writers: Kathleen Rowell(screenplay), S.E. Hinton (novel)
Cast: C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio
Genre: Drama
The Outsiders is a novel that every high school kid use to have to read as part of English/Literature class. I don't know about today, but in past years every teenager had read this novel. The novel itself was written by a high school girl, Susan Hinton who published her smash hit book under the name of S.E. Hinton.
The Outsiders, the movie is about a rivalry between two social status gangs. The poor kids are the Greasers, and the rich kids are the Socs (socialites). For the most part they insult one another and that's it. But after a group of Socs go after two young Greasers and one of the Socs gets killed in a fight, things get intense...and the two greasers must skip out of town.
Francis Ford Coppola, directed this heartfelt film and shot on location in Tulsa, Oklahoma. At the same time he was shooting The Outsiders he also shot Rumble Fish, another film based on a S.E. Hinton novel.
The Outsiders is the more accessible of the two films and that's thanks to a strong and personable cast of young upcoming actors that included: C. Thomas Howell, Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, Matt Dillon, Tom Cruise, Patrick Swayze, Ralph Macchio, and Diane Lane.
The strong part of the film is the story of the two youngest Greasers who go on the run after one of them kills a Soc in self defense. Their scenes in the old abandoned church along with Matt Dillion's wiser/older guidance, was very touching. Even more touching was the hospital scene that focuses on the one boy who gets badly burned.
They don't make them like this anymore.