Having read and enjoyed the book, I can safely say that every single scene in this film is taken directly from the book. The only changes made are a couple of important character developing moments. Every character in the book was fleshed out and well-written. Now, I know that it's impossible to capture everything as it is in a book but the film glosses over any character development whatsoever. It's surface level material we're watching.

I found it annoying that they made no attempt whatsoever to put their own spin on the story. Some people may enjoy just watching an exact film replica of the book. More power to them.

Does it work as a stand-alone film then? No, for me it fails in that regard as well. It's melodramatic and even if that were the intention it still sucked.

Entertaining guy film, but I still think the book is a bit better.

The karate kid. The dude from roadhouse. The coach from mighty ducks. The kid from risky business. And that guy from parks and recreation. All rolled into one greaser of a movie!

A classic blockbuster that tells gang war between two youth groups from different social ranks, one is a lower-class called The Greasers while the other is The Socs, a shortened for Socials, an upper-class youth group. This movie is interesting because it features many top notch future Hollywood stars namely Tom Cruise, Matt Dillon, Emilio Estevez, C. Thomas Howell, Diane Lane, Ralph Macchio and Patrick Swayze. Besides delivering social issues theme, The Outsiders mainly highlights the friendship and solidarity among gang members of the two social ranks. I guess, besides the fact that this film is timeless, I cannot say no more. Having had experience in creating gang-related major blockbuster films, Coppola managed to visualize The Outsiders as a very best feature like we all see today. This is a great film about coming of age, an insight of how rebellious teenagers can be. Nevertheless friendship and brotherhood are the selling points that make this film timeless.

Ingmar really hit it on the nose with this one. All the characters seem like caricatures, and even all the great actors can't redeem what was an immensely underwhelming novel. To paraphrase someone else's thoughts, If I wanted to listen to teenagers whine for 90 minutes, I'd go out and find some actual teenagers, rather than watching this endless stream of cliche after cliche until you almost want to scream at the screen fr someone to do something realistic!

On a side note, did you know Ralph Macchio was 20 in this movie? Seriously, twenty! He looks twelve!

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-Man, I thought New York was the only place to end up in a murder rap, Jesus Christ! -

-He goes to the Barber for an oil change, not an haircut-

A really good young 1980s cast, I'm sure I read somewhere that this film & cast started the whole Brat Pack series.

I liked this enough but it didn't blow me away, mainly because it wasn't what I thought it was going to be. I thought it was about the two groups; Greasers & Socs duking it out until a final climactic rumble.

Whilst the rumble is there, even though it feels unnecessary once it arrives, what we get is a coming of age and redemption of youth story, which being honest I preferred to the film I expected to see.

Aside from a little bit of wooden acting, these young pups, many who are still on our screens today, do a good job.

I did have a hankering to watch The Karate Kid though, as Ralph Macchio co-stars here a year before that film was released.

Entertaining guy film, but I still think the book is a bit better.

Ingmar really hit it on the nose with this one. All the characters seem like caricatures, and even all the great actors can't redeem what was an immensely underwhelming novel. To paraphrase someone else's thoughts, If I wanted to listen to teenagers whine for 90 minutes, I'd go out and find some actual teenagers, rather than watching this endless stream of cliche after cliche until you almost want to scream at the screen fr someone to do something realistic!

On a side note, did you know Ralph Macchio was 20 in this movie? Seriously, twenty! He looks twelve!

90 minutes of teenagers whining about their lives through cliche after cliche until we reach a point when all we want is the film to come to and end. Although the performances aren't awful (given the material) and it is a lot of fun to point out the actors, The Outsiders is an unrealistic portrayal of youth by someone who honestly does not understand.

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The Outsiders has really stayed gold, paraphrasing a famous line from the film. This was one of the films along with Rumble Fish that I had not seen of the great Francis Ford Coppola. The story takes and portrays the life of a young kid who is trapped between going down the wrong path and staying away from it. As the book the film was based on was written by a teenager, it really portrays all the young characters really well.

Decent, albeit shallow, adaptation of the classic book. Strange to see most of the actors in this movie looking so young.

A pretty good adaptation of the book. And I still can't believe Tom Cruise was in it.