The Outsiders (1983)

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"Because it falls in with the undulating rhythm of the life of its heroes, for whom a fatal fight and a quiet night have almost equal importance, the picture never manages to reach the peaks of satisfying Hollywood melodrama. - Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine A deeply strange film that gives '60s hoodlums the personalities of Care Bears and places them under constant attack from preppies in pastel sweaters. - Kyle Smith, New York Post"

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"Release Date - March 25th, 1983 Box Office Gross - $25,600,000 Watched March 5th - My DVD collection - Rewatch "You know we gotta win that fight tonight, we gotta get even with those Socs - let's do it for Johnny, man, we'll do it for Johnny!" - Dallas Winston The Outsiders was one of the many movies that got repeat theater viewings from me in 1983, I loved it then and I still love it now - I remember Roger Ebert making a comment that Francis Ford Coppola directed the movie like it was Gon"

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"November 1 I decided to watch the movie since I finished reading the book. I wasn't sure what to expect because I loved the book, but this was a damn good movie. It was just as suspenseful as the book and none of the characters were miscast. Not even Matt Dillon which I wasn't sure if he was right for that role, but he actually did good. One problem I had with the movie is that it didn't seem like the characters were gone for that long unlike the book. It is still a good movie and there was no "

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Interesting film facts (365 movies items)

"During filming, the actors playing the "soc"s were given leather-bound scripts and were put up in luxury accommodations, while the "greasers" were given battered paperback scripts and had to stay in the ground floor of the hotel, as director Francis Ford Coppola wanted to create tension between the two groups. During filming, Rob Lowe asked S.E. Hinton, the original author of 'The Outsiders', what happens to Sodapop Curtis. The author responded that Sodapop dies in Vietnam. The director want"