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
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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 |
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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 |
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Well acted and crafted but highly conventional. Full Review |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Lightly likeable. Full Review |
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3/5 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Francis Coppola's revision of his 1983 film of S.E. Hinton's best seller The Outsiders is funny, touching and revelatory. Full Review |
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3/5 |
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. Full Review |
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There's not much life in this movie, or spontaneity. It's a stylistic exercise. Full Review |
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Gorgeously photographed teen drama with a strong cast
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