Rent The Outsiders (1983)
3.5 of 5 from 130 ratings
1h 50min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- In 1966 Tulsa, teenagers come two ways. If you're a "Soc", you've got money, cars, a future. But if you're a "Greaser", you're an outsider with only your friends...and a dream that someday you'll finally belong. Francis Ford Coppola's powerful film of S.E. Hinton's classic novel captures how it feels to be caught between childhood's innocence and adulthood's disillusionment.
- Actors:
- C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, Tom Cruise, Glenn Withrow, Diane Lane, Leif Garrett, Darren Dalton, Michelle Meyrink, Tom Waits, Gailard Sartain, William Smith, Tom Hillmann, Hugh Walkinshaw, Sofia Coppola, Teresa Wilkerson Hunt, Linda Nystedt
- Directors:
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Producers:
- Francis Ford Coppola, Fred Roos, Gray Frederickson
- Writers:
- Kathleen Rowell, S.E. Hinton
- Aka:
- The Outsiders: The Complete Novel
- Studio:
- StudioCanal
- Genres:
- Drama
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- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 31/10/2011
- Run Time:
- 115 minutes
- Languages:
- English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- DVD Regions:
- Region 2
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.40:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Introduction and Audio Commentary with Francis Ford Coppola
- Audio Commentary with Matt Dillon, C Thomas Howell, Diane Lane, Rob Lowe, Ralph Macchio and Patrick Swayze
- Staying Gold: A look Back at "The Outsiders"
- S.E. Hinton on Location in Tulsa
- The Casting of "The Outsiders"
- NBC's News Today from 1983 "The Outsiders Started by School Pfetffion"
- Deleted and Extended Scenes
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 08/11/2021
- Run Time:
- 207 minutes
- Languages:
- English DTS 5.1
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- DVD Regions:
- Region 0 (All)
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.39:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- (0) All
- Bonus:
- Audio Commentary with Francis Ford Coppola
- Audio Commentary with Matt Dillon, C. Thomas Howell, Diane Lane, Rob Lowe, Ralph Macchio and Patrick Swayze
- New: Restoration Story
- New: Interview with Cinematographer Stephen Burum
- New: Deleted Scenes
- New: Francis Ford Coppola Introduction
- New: Outsider Looking In - Frances Ford Coppola discusses some key scenes
- New: Old House, New Home
- New: Trailer
- Staying Gold: A Look Back at 'The Outsiders'
- NBC's News Today from 1983 'The Outsiders' Started by School Petition
- 7 Cast Members (Lowe, Swayze, Howell, Dillon, Macchio, Garret and Lane) read extracts from the novel
- S.E. Hinton on Location in Tulsa
- The Casting of 'The Outsiders'
- Six Deleted and Extended scenes
- Trailer from 1983
- Disc 1:
- This disc includes the following:
- The Outsiders: The Complete Novel
- Special Features - Disc 2:
- This disc includes the following:
- The Outsiders (Original)
- Special Features
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Reviews (1) of The Outsiders
Spot-the-star-of-the-future early 1960s-set Teen Drama based on a classic novel - The Outsiders review by PV
This is a movie like DINER (set 1959) or I suppose AMERICAN GRAFFITI (set 1962), following teen boys through their coming of age with gang rivalry in smalltown America and the predictable tragedy (well something needs to happen in a story!). Apparently the novel is set in 1965 though it is never stated explicitly BUT from the music, this is pre-Beatles, 1961/2-ish I think.
And the music is GREAT I must say - Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis, Blue Moon. Superb stuff and deeply authentic.
The main actor is brilliant, C Thomas Howell, who debuted in ET and was cast here age 15 (he is now 57 and looks it. He stars in new film REAGAN and was also in the now-triggering SOUL MAN - yes, in blackface. Maybe that caused his career to nosedive? Odd really as the opposite worked wonders for Spike Less and the WHITE CHICKS film makers; Amazingly the actor playing his quiet Hispanic friend Johnny was 21 when this was filmed (he looks 13/14 at most!).
Patrick Swayze is here for the girls who love him (no dancing though). Matt Dillon, Rob Lowe. And Tom Cruise is one of the boys too in a small pre-stardom role.
And apparently director's daughter Sofia aged 11; the awful feem toon is written by a Coppola too and Stevie Wonder is roped in to sing the drivel. WHY NOT just use a great early 60s song? AH nepotism. An Italian word...
So-so, not brilliant, a real melodrama soap really. BUT the young actor boys are great as is the soundtrack AND unlike so many films now, it is NOT TOO LONG.
4 stars
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