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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... [More]
Starring: Matt Dillon, C. Thomas Howell, Ralph Macchio, Rob Lowe
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
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Reviews for The Outsiders
Flawed though it might be, it's still an exciting piece of film made by an innovative director who was firing on all cylinders.
03/01/07
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.
08/07/07
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.
12/11/07
Top Critic[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.
09/09/05
Top CriticThere's not much life in this movie, or spontaneity. It's a stylistic exercise.
10/23/04
Top CriticThe film is unremitting in its morbid sentimentality, running its teenage characters through a masochistic gamut of beatings, killings, burnings, and suicides.
12/11/07
Top CriticThe 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.
09/08/05
...the story is faithful to the spirit of the book, both a blessing and a curse.
04/08/01
... like a Disney movie that might be titled 'Spin and Marty Get Serious'
10/16/01
A deeply strange film that gives '60s hoodlums the personalities of Care Bears and places them under constant attack from preppies in pastel sweaters.
09/09/05
Top CriticWell acted and crafted but highly conventional.
12/11/07
Top CriticAs 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.
12/11/07
Francis Coppola's revision of his 1983 film of S.E. Hinton's best seller The Outsiders is funny, touching and revelatory.
09/09/05
Top CriticLightly likeable.
01/26/06
Coppola's dream version of S E Hinton's popular novelette is cast with the stars of tomorrow and takes us to the other side of that rainbow.
05/24/03
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.
09/09/05
extremely well-filmed and acted
11/15/03
A disturbing and profound commentary on an age of supposed innocence and it's lack thereof.
07/26/02
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