The Outsiders (film)

The Outsiders is a 1983 American drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, an adaptation of the novel of the same name by S. E. Hinton. The film was released on March 25, 1983. Jo Ellen Misakian, a librarian at Lone Star Elementary School in Fresno, California, and her students were responsible for inspiring Coppola to make the film.

In 1965 Tulsa, Oklahoma, Greasers are a gang of tough, lowincome workingclass teens. They include Ponyboy Curtis Howell and his two older brothers, Sodapop Lowe and Darrel Swayze, as well as Johnny Cade Macchio, Dallas Winston Dillon, TwoBit Matthews Estevez, and Steve Randle Cruise. Their rivalry is with the Socs pronounced s o z soh shiz, a gang of wealthier kids from the other side of town. Two Socs, Bob Sheldon Garrett and Randy Adderson Dalton, confront Johnny, Ponyboy, and TwoBit, who are talking to the Socs girlfriends, Cherry Lane and Marcia Meyrink, at a drivein theater. The girls defuse the situation by going home with the Socs. Later that night, Ponyboy and Johnny are attacked in a park by Bob, Randy, and three other Socs. They begin dunking Ponyboy in a fountain attempting to drown him, but Johnny pulls out his switchblade and stabs Bob to death.On the advice of Dallas, and the fact that murderers in Oklahoma will be executed on the electric chair, Ponyboy and Johnny flee on a cargo train, and hide out in an abandoned church in Windrixville. Both boys cut their hair and Ponyboy bleaches his with peroxide in order to mask their descriptions. To pass time, the boys play poker and Ponyboy reads Gone with the Wind and quotes the Robert Frost poem Nothing Gold Can Stay. After a few days, Dallas arrives with news that Cherry has offered to support the boys in court, that he told the police that Johnny and Pony were in Texas, and gives Pony a note from Sodapop. They go out to get something to eat, then return to find the church on fire with children trapped inside. The Greasers turn into heroes as they rescue the kids from the burning church. It doesnt take long for Ponyboy and Dally to heal up. Johnny, on the other hand, ends up with a broken back and severe burns. The boys are praised for their heroism, but Johnny is charged with manslaughter for killing Bob, while Ponyboy may be sent to a boys home. ........

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