1983 · drama · crime · coming-of-age
The Outsiders
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola1h 31m1983
In 1960s Tulsa, class divisions ignite a violent rivalry between the working-class Greasers and the privileged Socs. When a deadly encounter forces two Greasers, Ponyboy and Johnny, to flee, their struggle for survival and redemption exposes the fragile innocence and enduring bonds of youth on the wrong side of town.
Our read: The Outsiders (1983) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded drama · crime · coming-of-age entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured drama / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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