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Outsiders, The
Warner Bros. Pictures


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MPAA RATING: PG-13 for violence, teen drinking and smoking, and some sexual reference

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

The coming-of-age film based on S.E. Hinton's novel where two rival gangs fight over "turf" in 1960s Oklahoma.

GENRE(S):	Crime \| Drama
WRITTEN BY:	Kathleen Rowell S.E. Hinton (novel)
DIRECTED BY:	Francis Ford Coppola
RELEASE DATE:	DVD: November 30, 1999 Theatrical: March 25, 1983
RUNNING TIME:	91 minutes, Color
ORIGIN:	USA

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Boston Globe John Engstrom

The director gives us a small, sincere and nearly perfectly realized film about adolescence in Oklahoma, aptly entitled The Outsiders. [24 Mar 1983]

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

Francis Coppola's revision of his 1983 film of S.E. Hinton's best seller The Outsiders is funny, touching and revelatory, with twenty-two minutes of added footage and a new soundtrack featuring Elvis Presley. [Review of re-release]

TV Guide Staff (Not Credited)

The charismatic Dillon is a believable delinquent and gets solid support from a cast that went on to populate some of the better youth pictures in years to come. [Review of re-release]

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

Coppola's teenagers seem trapped inside too many layers of storytelling.

Variety Staff (Not Credited)

Francis Coppola has made a well acted and crafted but highly conventional film out of S.E. Hinton's popular youth novel, The Outsiders.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Jay Scott

This is an honestly moving, ungainly film. [25 Mar 1983]

Time Richard Corliss

Alas, The Outsiders is not quite a good one. 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.

Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt

As a movie, it's mediocre.

The New York Times Vincent Canby

It is spectacularly out of touch, a laughably earnest attempt to impose heroic attitudes on some nice, small characters purloined from a ''young-adult'' novel by S.E. Hinton, the woman who wrote the novel on which ''Tex'' was based.

Chicago Reader Dave Kehr

Francis Ford Coppola's gang film is as moony about death as "One From the Heart" was over romance; the film is unremitting in its morbid sentimentality, running its teenage characters through a masochistic gamut of beatings, killings, burnings, and suicides.

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Outsiders, The Warner Bros. Pictures

Outsiders, The
Warner Bros. Pictures