Top billed cast

1. 

   C. Thomas Howell

   Ponyboy Curtis

2. 

   Matt Dillon

   Dallas Winston

3. 

   Ralph Macchio

   Johnny Cade

4. 

   Patrick Swayze

   Darrel Curtis

5. 

   Rob Lowe

   Sodapop Curtis

6. 

   Emilio Estevez

   Two-Bit Matthews

7. 

   Tom Cruise

   Steve Randle

8. 

   Glenn Withrow

   Tim Shepard

9. 

   Diane Lane

   Cherry Valance

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2023-06-08

Hmmm. Francis Ford Coppola has creatively produced a piece of superbly photographed and frequently quite intimate observational cinema here this is far more remarkable for it's casting than for anything especially innovative about the story or the characterisations. Indeed had seven of this cast not gone on to great and good things - to varying degrees - then I'm afraid I can't think this film would rate much better than as an interesting, "West Side Story" style derivate with neither the style nor the personalities. It is essentially a gang enmity film - the "Greasers" consisting of those at ...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$10,000,000.00

Revenue
$33,697,647.00

Keywords

• street gang
• based on novel or book
• children's home
• coming of age
• gang
• juvenile delinquent
• tulsa, oklahoma
• based on young adult novel
• teenager
• psychological drama