The Outsiders

Drama, Crime

Tom Cruise	Steve Randle
Matt Dillon	Dallas Winston
Emilio Estevez	Keith Mathews
Leif Garrett	Bob Sheldon
Diane Lane	Sherri Valance
Rob Lowe	Sodapop Curtis
Ralph Macchio	Johnny Cade
Patrick Swayze	Darrel Curtis
C. Thomas Howell	Ponyboy Curtis

Director	Francis Ford Coppola
Producer	Kim Aubry; Gray Frederickson
Writer	S.E. Hinton; Kathleen Rowell

Based on S. E. Hinton’s 1967 novel of the same name, Francis Ford Coppola’s The Outsiders is a study of socioeconomic stratification and societal tension among the American youth of the 1960s. Ponyboy Curtis (C. Thomas Howell) leads a turbulent existence as a have-not “greaser” in 1960s Tulsa, along with his brothers, Darry (Patrick Swayze) and Sodapop (Rob Lowe), and a tight-knight gang of compatriots, including Two-Bit Mathews (Emilio Estevez), Dallas Winston (Matt Dillon), and Johnny Cade (Ralph Macchio). Ponyboy’s life is abruptly interrupted following an encounter between him and Johnny and two girls belonging to the wealthy clique of “socs” (Diane Lane and Michelle Meyrink), an encounter which leads to more violence and sorrow than the members of either group suspect.