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 accide
In 1983, the same year "The Outsiders" arrived, Swayze appeared in the TV series, "The Renegades." It was three years later that he landed his true breakout role in "Dirty Dancing." Swayze would go on to star in "Ghost," "Road House," "Point Break" and "Donnie Darko." In 2008,...
Since Lowedidget cast inThe Outsidersas Ponyboy's second-oldest brother, Sodapop ("it even says so on his birth certificate"), he didnotquit acting. But despite his time with the Brat Pack inSt. Elmo's FireandAbout Last Night, an impressive evil turn inBad Influenceand the straight-man...
E. Hinton's The Outsiders After the tragic death of Ponyboy, Sodapop, and Darrel Curtis “Darry” parents, Darry takes their role and starts being responsible for them. In the book The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, Darry plays the role of the older brother of Sodapop and Ponyboy. In this ...
The Novel(1967) The Film(1983) The TV Series(1990) The Play(1990) The Musical(2023) Characters and their Actors (from film cast and series cast) Greasers Darrel CurtisPatrick SwayzeBoyd Kestner Sodapop CurtisRob LoweRodney Harvey Ponyboy CurtisC. Thomas HowellJay R. Ferguson Johnny Cade...
Published in April 1967 by Viking Books, S.E. Hinton’s influential coming-of-age novelThe Outsiderstold the story of the Curtis brothers: 14-year-old Ponyboy, 16-year-old Sodapop, and 20-year-old Darry. After their parents are killed in a car crash, the three struggle to stay togethe...
Rob Lowe as Sodapop in “The Outsiders.”Zoetrope/Warner Brothers The movie was shot almost entirely in Tulsa. The building used as the home of the Curtis brothers is being turned into a museum. Hinton was a special advisor to Francis Ford Coppola during the filming. And to the young actor...
Susan Eloise Hinton grew up in a working-class neighborhood inTulsa,Oklahoma. Her mother worked in a factory and her father was a door-to-door salesman. HintonattendedWill RogersHigh School and graduated in 1966. While she was a student there, she wrote her first book,The Outsiders, which ...
In that same year he made his feature-film debut portraying heartthrob Sodapop Curtis in American director Francis Ford Coppola’s coming-of-age drama The Outsiders, which was also an important early film for other young American actors, including Tom Cruise, Ralph Macchio, Patrick Swayze, Matt...
You might have read The Outsiders in high school, but you've never experienced the searing, moving coming-of-age story like this. Folk music and electric performances deepen the story of Ponyboy Curtis, Johnny Cade, and their band of fellow "greasers." As they fight against the well-off...