Much like with the book, many longtime fans treasure The Outsiders as among “the” movies of their generation, and it continually finds a fresh generation of adoring teen fans. Others, however, deemed it a classic, praised the cast’s performances, considered its look naturalistic, and actually admired Coppola’s faithfulness to the novel. Reviews ran the gamut, with some critics calling the 91-minute-long film too slow, stagey, sappy, stylized, and maudlin, with a bombastic score (by Coppola’s father), and too many moments from the book not included. The Outsiders grossed just shy of $34 million against a $10 million budget. Scott Baio came in one day.” Howell recalled, “Francis would point to somebody and say, ‘Now you go.’ It would be Val Kilmer.” Leif Garrett was probably the most famous guy who walked in. In an Entertainment Weekly oral history feature by Lynette Rice, Macchio recounted seeing “Timothy Hutton, Sean Penn, Dennis Quaid, Mickey Rourke… It was a movie everybody wanted to be in. Cue a couple of bad haircuts and dye jobs, a bigger rumble, a death, and a suicide.įor all the burgeoning star power in the movie, it very easily could have starred other notable actors. Ponyboy and Johnny go on the run and spend several days (and a good chunk of screen time) pondering life and fate, reading Gone with the Wind, deciding whether to turn themselves in and saving several kids from a church fire. It leads to a fight that leaves Bob dead from a knife wound inflicted by Johnny. She’s dating a Soc and thus Soc-adjacent, and the Soc crew doesn’t take kindly to the gesture. All hell breaks loose when Dallas makes a move on Cherry. And, for better or worse, he stuck to the book, including much of its unique dialogue, which Hinton wrote at age 16.Īs in the book, The Outsiders film unfolds in 1965, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and follows big brother Darry, who has raised Ponyboy and Sodapop since their parents’ deaths. He did so, with the help and active participation of Hinton herself, who pops up briefly in the film as a nurse. What’s significant about it is that it adapted a mega-popular book that almost everybody read in high school, and managed not to mess it up.Ĭoppola famously decided to make the movie when – after the back-to-back traumas of directing the massive and expensive Apocalypse Now and One from the Heart – he received a letter from a California librarian and many of her school’s students, requesting that he adapt The Outsiders. The adjective “good” probably does it proper justice. Depending on who you ask, the film is neither great nor terrible. book, The Outsiders, opened in theaters nationwide. The big-screen versions of the Greasers and Socs (pronounced Soches) battled it out for the first time on Ma– 40 years ago today - when director Francis Coppola’s adaptation of S.E.
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