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Outsiders (The)
- Director: Francis Ford Coppola
- Writer: Kathleen Rowell; S.E. Hinton
- Producer: Kim Aubry; Gian-Carlo Coppola
CGiii Comment
Shockingly bad - and there are those that hail this as a classic - poor misguided fools.
Yet another Coppola nepotistic fiesta.....
The opening music is shit and totally incongruous.
The acting is as if the director was not in attendance.
The direction is as if the director hadn't directed a movie......and, the script is beyond contempt.
How does one go from the sheer genius of The Godfather to this...the writer really is more important than the director.
Here is the evidence.
Case closed.
Bad film.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Based on the book by S.E. Hinton, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Ponyboy Curtis, the youngest of a clan that was poor in the east side of town known as "Greasers", is a guy with good grades and is very sensitive. He lives with his two older brothers, Sodapop and Darry, jokester Two-Bit, Soda's friend, Steve, the toughest, Dally, and weakling, Johnny. The seven have had a longtime rivalry with another clan in the west known as the "Socs", that consist of Randy, Bob, Cherry, and Marcia. One night, after Pony and Johnny are ambushed, they decide to hide out of town when Bob gets killed. Then they realize they must hide from everybody else before things get arwy almost immediately.
Cast & Characters
C. Thomas Howell as Ponyboy Curtis;
Matt Dillon as Dallas Winston;
Ralph Macchio as Johnny Cade;
Patrick Swayze as Darrel Curtis;
Rob Lowe as Sodapop Curtis;
Emilio Estevez as Two-Bit Matthews;
Tom Cruise as Steve Randle;
Glenn Withrow as Tim Shepard;
Diane Lane as Cherry Valance;
Leif Garrett as Bob Sheldon;
Darren Dalton as Randy Anderson;
Michelle Meyrink as Marcia;
Tom Waits as Buck Merrill;
Gailard Sartain as Jerry;
William Smith as Store Clerk