Francis Ford Coppola launches the careers of Patrick Swayze, Tom Cruise, and Matt Dillon in an adaptation of the cult novel by a 16-year-old writer from Oklahoma.
The Outsiders
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16 Oct 2026
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1983, Francis Ford Coppola
United States–France
92 minutes, English with Russian subtitles
Starring: Diane Lane, Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe, Tom Cruise
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Teenage gangs are fighting on the streets of Tulsa, Oklahoma. At the centre of the conflict is 14-year-old Ponyboy Curtis. He reads books, loves cinema and is quite unlike his peers, but his fate is sealed: the young man will have to bid farewell to his childhood and find himself caught up in a web of crime.
Still from The Outsiders, 1983
Angels with dirty faces but immaculately pure hearts burn with a hard, gemlike flame before being snuffed out in their prime.
—Gilbert Adair, Sight & Sound
Coppola made the film based on Susan Hinton’s book, published in the late 1960s, and virtually all the young actors went on to become Hollywood stars.
