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The Outsiders (1983)

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Reviews Counted:31

Fresh:20

Rotten:11

Average Rating:6.1/10

Runtime: 1 hr 54 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: 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... 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. [More]

Starring: Matt Dillon, C. Thomas Howell, Ralph Macchio, Rob Lowe

Starring: Matt Dillon, C. Thomas Howell, Ralph Macchio, Rob Lowe, Diane Lane, Emilio Estevez, Tom Cruise, Tom Waits, Patrick Swayze, Leif Garrett

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Screenwriter: Kathleen Rowell
Producer: Gray Frederickson, Fred Roos
Composer: Carmine Coppola

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As a movie, it's mediocre. As a clue to Coppola's thinking, it shows he still has things to learn about the relation between technology and expression.

Full Review Source: Christian Science Monitor | comment Comment
12/11/07
David Sterritt
David Sterritt
Christian Science Monitor

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 Source: TIME Magazine | comment Comment
12/11/07
Richard Corliss
Richard Corliss
TIME Magazine
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Well acted and crafted but highly conventional.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
12/11/07
Variety Staff
Variety Staff
Variety
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The film is unremitting in its morbid sentimentality, running its teenage characters through a masochistic gamut of beatings, killings, burnings, and suicides.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
12/11/07
Dave Kehr
Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader
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A devouring CinemaScope fever dream: an homage to Robert Wise and Nicholas Ray that took its chief inspiration from the timeless backlit twilights of Gone with the Wind.

Full Review Source: Film Freak Central | comment Comment
08/07/07
Walter Chaw
Walter Chaw
Film Freak Central

Flawed though it might be, it's still an exciting piece of film made by an innovative director who was firing on all cylinders.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
03/01/07
Lewis Beale
Lewis Beale
Film Journal International

Lightly likeable.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
01/26/06
Time Out

No review available.

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01/06/06
Cole Smithey
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com

No review available.

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10/10/05
Chuck O'Leary
Chuck O'Leary
Fantastica Daily

The new cut of “The Outsiders” aptly entitled “The Complete Novel” expands what existed before to such a degree that the framework of the novel is restored...

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
09/21/05
Rory L. Aronsky
Rory L. Aronsky
Film Threat

A deeply strange film that gives '60s hoodlums the personalities of Care Bears and places them under constant attack from preppies in pastel sweaters.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment 3 Comments
09/09/05
Kyle Smith
Kyle Smith
New York Post
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[Coppola's] revisions to the film, which include a new, improved soundtrack, invest it with grandeur worthy of both its characters and his own ambitions.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
09/09/05
Manohla Dargis
Manohla Dargis
New York Times
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While his film lacks the emotional conviction and psychological insight of Nicholas Ray's classic work, his grandiose vision pays off in some stunning camerawork.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
09/09/05
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Francis Coppola's revision of his 1983 film of S.E. Hinton's best seller The Outsiders is funny, touching and revelatory.

Full Review Source: Rolling Stone | comment Comment
09/09/05
Peter Travers
Peter Travers
Rolling Stone
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The Outsiders was relatively cheap, and also brought Coppola back to a kind of human drama that his post-Godfather work had been lacking, the result enrapturing a good number of teens and pre-teens in the 1980s.

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09/08/05
Christopher Null
Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com

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06/14/05
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

There's not much life in this movie, or spontaneity. It's a stylistic exercise.

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10/23/04
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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02/05/04
Lori Hoffman
Lori Hoffman
Atlantic City Weekly

Gorgeously photographed teen drama with a strong cast

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01/11/04
James Sanford
James Sanford
Kalamazoo Gazette

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01/05/04
Greg Maki
Greg Maki
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