In 1966 Tulsa, teenagers come two ways. If you're a "soc" you've got money, cars, a future. But if you're a "greaser" you're an outsider with only your friends...and a dream that someday you'll finally belong.
Francis Coppola's powerful film of S.E.Hinton's classic novel captures how it feels to be caught between childhood's innocence and adulthood's disillusionment. The ensemble is a Who's Who of young talents of the past two decades: Matt Dillon, Tom Cruise, Emilio Estevez, C. Thomas Howell, Diane Lane, Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe and Ralph Macchio. Movingly and in an intensively visual style, Coppola has made these street rats and their struggle heroic...and unforgettable.

Synopsis

They grew up on the outside of society. They werent looking for a fight. They were looking to belong. The Outsiders was the film that launched a new generation of actors. Together they would become know as the brat pack, and dominate the box office over the next decade. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, it was made back to back with Rumblefish, and has achieved the same cult status. The story, set in the sixties, centres on the conflict between two gangs in the town of Tulsa, Oklahoma. One, known as the Socs, are rich middle class kids, living on the south side of town. On the north side are the Greasers who have nothing but each other and the hatred for the Socs. One night their ongoing feud results in murder and two Greasers Pony Boy and Johnny go on the run