REEL 13 DOUBLE FEATURE | ROSIE PLAYS JULIE For the film’s 2005 DVD re-release as The Outsiders: The Complete Novel, Coppola restored 22 minutes and added more jukebox hits to the soundtrack, scaling back the original romantic score by his father, Carmine, who died in 1991. forced the director to cut half an hour, convinced that the film’s target audience would never sit through a movie that long. Upon screening Coppola’s initial two-hour edit, Warner Bros. Hinton appears in The Outsiders as Matt Dillon’s nurse, and served as den mother to the Greaser cast, helping to civilize the frat house atmosphere during location shooting. With his Zoetrope Studios nearly bankrupt following the box office disaster of One from the Heart in 1981, Coppola agreed that the book held potential, but could only afford $500 to purchase the rights, offering to produce and direct Hinton’s novel Rumble Fish to sweeten the deal-a promise he followed through on in 1983 with a film adaptation also starring Matt Dillon and Diane Lane. The novel was sent to Francis Ford Coppola by Jo Ellen Misakian, a school librarian in Fresno, California, whose enthusiastic student readers were convinced it would make a great movie. Taking her inspiration from the gang conflict at her own Tulsa high school, author Susan Eloise Hinton published her novel The Outsiders at age 17 in 1967, which rapidly become a young adult fiction blockbuster. And later that night when Ponyboy and Johnny encounter a carload of Socs itching for retaliation, the gangs’ simmering hostility boils over, setting in motion a chain reaction of deadly violence.Īlso featured in early-career supporting roles are Emilio Estevez and Tom Cruise. While Ponyboy and Johnny succeed in getting Dally to stop his aggressive flirtation with Cherry, their gentlemanly behavior is only regarded as a serious Greaser transgression on Socs territory by Cherry’s boyfriend Bob, played by Leif Garrett. Taken under the wing of his brash older friend Dally Winston, played by Matt Dillon, Ponyboy and his friend Johnny Cade, played by Ralph Macchio, sneak into a drive-in, where they encounter Cherry Valance, an unattainable Socs girl played by Diane Lane. Thomas Howell stars as Ponyboy Curtis, an orphaned Greaser whose parents were killed in a car crash, now living with his older brothers Darrel and Sodapop, played by Patrick Swayze and Rob Lowe. Set in mid-1960s Tulsa, Oklahoma, the West Side Story -style plot revolves around the ongoing gang conflict between the lower class “Greasers” and the upper crust “Socs.” C. Hinton’s groundbreaking young adult novel of the same name, The Outsiders is one of the seminal “brat pack” movies of the 1980s, featuring a cast of teen heartthrobs in career-launching performances. This week’s double feature begins with The Outsiders, a 1983 drama directed by Francis Ford Coppola.īased on author S.E.
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