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The Outsiders

They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.

1983 · 1h 31m · PG Crime, Drama
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola

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Overview

In 1960s Tulsa, class divisions ignite a violent rivalry between the working-class Greasers and the privileged Socs. When a deadly encounter forces two Greasers, Ponyboy and Johnny, to flee, their struggle for survival and redemption exposes the fragile innocence and enduring bonds of youth on the wrong side of town.

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71%
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Rotten

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
Rotten

Well acted and crafted but highly conventional.

Variety Staff, Variety
Rotten

The film is unremitting in its morbid sentimentality, running its teenage characters through a masochistic gamut of beatings, killings, burnings, and suicides.

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Rotten

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
Fresh

[Coppola's] revisions to the film, which include a new, improved soundtrack, invest it with grandeur worthy of both its characters and his own ambitions.

Manohla Dargis, New York Times

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