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Outsiders, The
EMAILPRINTWarner Bros. Pictures
Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 10 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Crime | Drama
Written by:
Kathleen Rowell
S.E. Hinton (novel)
Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola
Release Date:
Theatrical: March 25, 1983
DVD: November 30, 1999
Running Time: 91 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
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.
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
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]
Read Full Review >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]
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Coppola's teenagers seem trapped inside too many layers of storytelling.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 7.3 (out of 10) based on 8 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
