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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| C. Thomas Howell | ... | Ponyboy Curtis | |
| Matt Dillon | ... | Dallas Winston | |
| Ralph Macchio | ... | Johnny Cade | |
| Patrick Swayze | ... | Darrel Curtis | |
| Rob Lowe | ... | Sodapop Curtis | |
| Emilio Estevez | ... | Two-Bit Matthews | |
| Tom Cruise | ... | Steve Randle | |
| Glenn Withrow | ... | Tim Shepard | |
| Diane Lane | ... | Cherry Valance | |
| Leif Garrett | ... | Bob Sheldon | |
| Darren Dalton | ... | Randy Anderson | |
| Michelle Meyrink | ... | Marcia | |
| Tom Waits | ... | Buck Merrill | |
| Gailard Sartain | ... | Jerry | |
| William Smith | ... | Store Clerk | |
Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1965. Fourteen-year-old Ponyboy Curtis is the youngest of three orphaned brothers who live on the north side of town, the "wrong side" of the tracks. Sensitive Ponyboy used to have a good relationship with his oldest brother Darrel, but since Darrel became the household caregiver, he is always on Ponyboy's case. Caught in the middle is third brother Sodapop, who dropped out of school to work full time. They all belong to The Greasers, a gang of boys from the north side also from working class families, often broken. Ponyboy's main concern is that any problem they may encounter, especially in their Greaser activities, will lead to the authorities splitting up their family. He also believes Darrel would have outgrown them and become something in his life if it wasn't for his loyalty to the gang, and the need to take care of the family. The rest of the world sees the Greasers as all the same, the face being Dallas Winston, the most volatile one who has just been released... Written by Huggo
First let me say that this will not be a comment where the author will be gushing about how "hot" the cast is! Like a lot of people who have commented on this film I, too, read the book first in school and then proceeded to seek out the film to see how the story translated to the screen. I thought esteemed director Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather, Apocalypse Now) did a fairly competent job of adapting the book (there will always be somerevisions and omissions in such an enterprise). He preserved the essence of the class struggle: the eternal conflict between those who were better favored by birth and station (Socs) with those less favored (Greasers). Coppola elicited more than competent performances from the young up-and-coming cast he assembled. All in all, a very good coming of age film.