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Can't judge a book by its cover
This is one of SE Hinton's best stories and probably the best film version of any of her stories. C. Thomas Howell (Soul Man)plays the introspective Ponyboy Curtis, Ralph Machio (The Karate Kid) plays the vulnerable Johny Cade, Diane Lane plays Cherry Valance, Emilio Estevez (The Breakfast Club, Young Guns) plays Two-Bit Matthews, Lief Garrett plays one of the Soc's, Rob Lowe (St. Elmo's Fire and About Last Night) plays Sodapop, Ponyboy's laid back brother, and Patrick Swayze (Ghost, Dirty Dancing) plays Darrell, Ponyboy's perfectionist brother. All give great performances, but the best performance is by Dillon Thomas (The Flamingo Kid) who plays the tough, volatile, and sensitive Dallas Winston.

Filmed in rural Oklahoma and based in the mid-1960's, the "greasers" Ponyboy and Johny are tormented by the rich spoiled Soc's and must stay clear of he law after a confrontation with one of the Soc's and Dallas offers them support and shelter hiding out in the country. The three mentioned somehow wind up as heroes and are able to be free of their hoodlum image (which embarrasses tough guy Dallas as you'll see in the movie). This story brings home the adage that you can't judge a book by its cover.

Excellent
Overall, this movie is very good. The acting is supreme (I don't think it could get any better), and the movie is portrayed well. You're probably thinking, why 4 stars then? Well, I think that, in comparison to the book, the movie is not as good. It really leaves out some important things, and I think Francis Ford Coppola shouldn't have tried to make this an arts film, he should've just tried to make it real. But the movie, NOT in comparison to the book, is still positively excellent. I've seen it, like, 20 times, and I think that it's really too bad that C. Thomas Howell didn't go on to be as famous as Tom Cruise, because Howell had a big role and Cruise had a little one. But I think Howell and Matt Dillon's acting is the best in the movie (both soo cute, too! :) I think the only possible way this movie could've been better is if they had made it just 10 minutes longer with Curtis brothers scenes, but they didn't because Matt Dillon was becoming popular at the time. Don't get me wrong, I love Matt Dillon. But I think the movie would've been better, more powerful, and more true to the book if they had just put more Curtis brothers scenes in there.

Greatest movie in America!
This movie is a fabulous movie! So thrilling and so exciting! You read the book and it is great and when you watch the movie it is greater than the book! Dally, Ponyboy, Darry, Johnny, Two-Bit, and Soda-pop all have their own personalities. Some start off like tow-headed jerks and at the end turn to someone who actually did love something and lost it and is killed. Some start out sweet and then they turn around out off no where and kill someone! It is amazing how the theme and characters seem to catch your attention when you watch the movie. If you read the book it doesn't exactly bring out what the movie does. It gives you major points but the movie gives chiils on top of thrills! The chills are not bad though. They are the good chills that prove you are really getting in to the movie! The thrills are at the parts where something totally unexpected happens and you have no idea what so ever what to think about the situation! I do believe that if you watch this movie it will change your outlokk on life!

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