The Outsiders PG

They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.
The Outsiders
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DVD Features:

  • Rated: PG
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 31 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: September 2, 2008
  • Originally Released: 1983
  • Label: Warner Home Video
  • Packaging: Keep Case
  • Aspect Ratio: Full Frame - 1.33
  • Aspect Ratio: Widescreen - 1.85
  • Audio:
    • Dolby Surround Stereo - English
    • Stereo 2.0 - English

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Entertainment Reviews:

Fresh64%

TOMATOMETER
Total Count: 39

Upright82%

AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 138,262
Watching it again recently I found all of Coppola's cornball flourishes to be rather endearing, even generous. Full Review
The ARTery
Jul 31, 2018
Lightly likeable. Full Review
Time Out
Jan 26, 2006
Because it falls in with the undulating rhythm of the life of its heroes, for whom a fatal fight and a quiet night have almost equal importance, the picture never manages to reach the peaks of satisfying Hollywood melodrama. Full Review
TIME Magazine
Dec 11, 2007
Rating: 7/10 -- A satisfying example of the artist-as-talented-hack. Full Review
Antagony & Ecstasy
Oct 25, 2014
...[A film] in which angels with dirty faces but immaculately pure hearts burn with a hard, gemlike flame...
Sight and Sound
Sep 1, 1983
Rating: 4/5 -- Coppola's take on S.E. Hinton's classic. Teens+. Full Review
Common Sense Media
Jan 1, 2011
Rating: 1.5/4 -- A deeply strange film that gives '60s hoodlums the personalities of Care Bears and places them under constant attack from preppies in pastel sweaters.
New York Post
Sep 9, 2005

Product Description:

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 Macchio), 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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Production Notes:

  • THE OUTSIDERS marks the film debut of Rob Lowe.
  • S.E. Hinton wrote THE OUTSIDERS when she was only 15 and had it published two years later in 1967. It was her first novel; it sold millions of copies. Hinton was the author of other popular teen novels such as TEX and RUMBLE FISH, both of which were made into movies starring Matt Dillon. RUMBLE FISH was also directed by Coppola the same year.
  • Francis Ford Coppola first became aware of S.E. Hinton's book THE OUTSIDERS when Jo Ellen Misakian, a librarian at the Lone Star School in Fresno, California, and her students wrote a letter to Coppola suggesting the book be made into a movie. He dedicated the film to them.
  • THE OUTSIDERS spawned a TV series.
  • Sofia Coppola has one line in the film as a little girl asking Dallas Winston for a dime.
  • S.E. Hinton appears in the film as a nurse.
  • "Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold."--Johnny Cade (Ralph Macchio)
  • "He's so greasy he glides when he walks. He goes to the barbershop for an oil change, not a haircut."--Two-Bit Matthews (Emilio Estevez)

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  • Sales Rank: 6,588
  • UPC: 883929035427
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