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The Outsiders is a 1983 American coming-of-age crime drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola.The film is an adaptation of the 1967 novel of the same name by S. E. Hinton and was released on March 25, 1983, in the United States. 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.
The Outsiders is a coming-of-age novel by S.E. Hinton published in 1967 by Viking Press.The book details the conflict between two rival gangs of White Americans divided by their socioeconomic status: the working-class "Greasers" and the upper-middle-class "Socs" (pronounced / ˈ s oʊ ʃ ɪ z / SOH-shiz—short for Socials).The story is told in first-person perspective by teenage protagonist ...
The Outsiders: Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. With C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Patrick Swayze. In a small Oklahoma town in 1964, the rivalry between two gangs, the poor Greasers and the rich Socs, heats up when one gang member accidentally kills a member of the other.
Nov 12, 2024 · The Outsiders is an American young adult (YA) novel by S.E. Hinton about rival teen gangs in Oklahoma that was published in 1967 and was one of the first modern YA novels. The novel centers on Ponyboy Curtis, a 14-year-old boy who narrates about two weeks of his life in an Oklahoma city that is deeply divided between the working-class ‘greasers’ and upper-class ‘Socs.’
Dec 31, 2014 · The original 91 minute cut of 1983's The Outsiders. The book by S E Hinson adapted well to the screen. Coppola did, of course, an excellent job directing and the casting was perfect.There is a longer version through different editing techniques for those viewers who wanted more clarity in the fights, the reasons, the importance of the threat of reform school.
The Outsiders was a breakthrough in the American YA book market back then. S.E. Hinton uses a first-person narrative, depicts a small-town life through the eyes of a 14-year-old. The story is set in a midwestern American city in the 1960s, where the wealthy live in the north and the poor in the south, leading to constant conflicts and street ...
The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton, published in 1967, is a coming-of-age novel set in the 1960s in Tulsa, Oklahoma.Hinton began writing The Outsiders at the age of fifteen, inspired by her frustration with the social divisions in her high school and the lack of realistic fiction for high school readers.. The story is narrated by Ponyboy Curtis, a teenager from the wrong side of the tracks, who ...
The Outsiders. Jump to. Edit. Summaries. In a small Oklahoma town in 1964, the rivalry between two gangs, the poor Greasers and the rich Socs, heats up when one gang member accidentally kills a member of the other. It is 1961, and Tulsa, Oklahoma is divided in two along social lines. The youths of each side form gangs in line with these two ...
The Outsiders. 1983 · 1 hr 32 min. PG. Drama · Crime. An all-star young Hollywood version of the iconic young adult novel about the divide between rich and roughneck teens – and a romance that crosses the tracks. Subtitles: English. Starring: Diane Lane Ralph Macchio Tom Cruise C. Thomas Howell Matt Dillon.
When two poor Greasers, Johnny and Ponyboy, are assaulted by a vicious gang, the Socs, and Johnny kills one of the attackers, tension begins to mount between the two rival gangs, setting off a turbulent chain of events.