The Outsiders
by Francis Ford Coppola
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Actor: C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Patrick Swayze, Ralph Macchio, Rob LoweDirector: Francis Ford Coppola
Brand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: Stephen H. Burum
Producer: Fred Roos
Producer: Gian-Carlo Coppola
Producer: Gray Frederickson
Producer: Kim Aubry
Writer: Kathleen Rowell
Writer: S.E. Hinton
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 91 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-09-02
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Product features:
- S.E. Hinton's beloved novel of teens from the wrong side of the tracks, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, featuring Matt Dillon, Tom Cruise, Rob Lowe, Patrick Swayze and other young stars.Year: 1983Running Time: 91 min. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: NR Age: 883929035427 UPC: 883929035427 Manufacturer No: 1000042281
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Movie Review: Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold
Summary: 5 Stars
The Outsiders, based on the novel by H.E. Hinton, and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, is an awesome film. Though the novels of H.E. Hinton are targeted to a teen age demographic, they are somewhat deeper than the average teenster fodder. They are deep, with characters that are at once greasers, and sensitive enough to quote Robert Frost poems by heart. Then there are the socs (pronounced so-shuz), the rich kids who attend social gatherings at the country club, when they're not drunkenly water boarding much smaller greaser kids that they outnumber two-to-one. The socs are not all bad, though. For instance Cherry Vance (Diane Lane) is not only scorchingly hot, she has a soft spot for Ponyboy Curtis (C. Thomas Howell), and would almost fall for his friend, Dallas (Matt Dillon) if he wasn't such a jerk.
Ponyboy has the soul of a poet in the body of a greaser. See Thomas Howl. Howl, Thomas, howl. It is amazing how well he carries the film when you consider all the young talent this film is packed with: Tom Cruise, Matt Dillon, Diane Lane, Rob Lowe (as Ponyboy's brother, Soda Pop, in his film debut), Emilio Esteves, Patrick Swayze, Tom Waits, and Ralph Macchio. While Howell is the lead, Ralph, as Johnny, is a close second. He is just a kid, but he's a young kid with an old soul. Though you might say that the other actors I mentioned all went on to bigger and better things, this may have been the zenith of Howell and Macchio's career. It is like the Robert Frost Poem that Ponyboy quotes:
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
Or, in the last words of Johnny to Ponyboy, "Stay Gold."
That was also the title to a great song that Stevie Wonder wrote for the film. It is a great Wonder ballad, with orchestration that may have been provided by Francis' brother Carmine, who did the music. Carmine Coppola was the dean of the Art Department when I went to San Francisco State--quite a flamboyant character who affected purple velvet capes, like he was some kind of Art Vampire. He was also Nicolas Cage's father. Another Coppola factoid is that Sofia Coppola played the young street urchin who tried to spare change Dally, Ponyboy, and Johnny.
Bottom Line is that The Outsiders is an amazing film that combines lyrical moments with the dramatic intensity of a clash of cultures: Greasers Vs. Socs. Meet you at the rumble, but remember, stay gold.
One From the Heart (1982) Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Tom Waits was Trumpet player
Rumble Fish (Special Edition) (1983) Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Matt Dillon was Rusty James, Tom Waits was Benny, Diane Lane was Patty
The Cotton Club (1984) Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Diane Lane was Vera Cicero, Tom Waits was Irving Stark
St. Elmo's Fire (1985) Rob Lowe was Billy Hicks, Emilio Estevez was Kirby Keger
Soul Man (1986) C. Thomas Howell was Mark Watson
Drugstore Cowboy (1989) Matt Dillon was Bob
Too Much Sun [VHS] (1990) Ralph Macchio was Frank, Jr.
Point Break(1991) Patrick Swayze was Bodhi
The Ed Wood Collection - A Salute to Incompetence I Woke Up Early the Day I Died (1998) Leif Garrett was Cruiser Cop #4
Magnolia (1999) Tom Cruise was Frank T.J. Mackey
Johnny: Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold.
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