The Outsiders: Book vs. Movie
Francis Ford Coppola's 1983 film The Outsiders adapts S. E. Hinton's book. C. Thomas Howell plays Ponyboy Curtis, a teenager whose friendship with Johnny draws him into the escalating violence between the Greasers and the Socs.
From Books Adapted
How much of the book it covers
The Complete Novel cut restores more of Hinton's book
The 1983 movie adapts the main story of Hinton's novel through its ending. The later version called The Outsiders: The Complete Novel is a longer cut of that movie, using material left out of its original release.
Coppola revisited the movie after readers kept asking why scenes from Hinton's book were missing. He released the longer cut in 2005. It restores about 22 minutes of footage, including material from the book's beginning and ending. The additions give more space to the relationship between Ponyboy and his brothers, Darry and Sodapop. They restore parts of the Curtis family's story that had been reduced in the theatrical cut.
The Complete Novel cut was restored for release in 2021.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- S. E. Hinton
- Year
- 1967
- Pages
- 160Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 5 hr 9 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Jim Fyfe
Ponyboy Curtis relies on his older brothers and fellow greasers in a town where money divides teenagers into rival groups. After an encounter with wealthy Socs turns deadly, he and his friend Johnny go into hiding. Away from their neighborhood, Ponyboy begins questioning the loyalties and assumptions that have shaped his understanding of both sides.
- Director
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Writer
- S. E. Hinton
- Year
- 1983
- Runtime
- 1 hr 27 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, C. Thomas Howell, Patrick Swayze
- Genre
- coming-of-age, Drama, teen
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
Ponyboy Curtis finds protection and belonging among the Greasers, boys from the poorer side of town whose clashes with the wealthy Socs can turn violent. After one confrontation leaves a boy dead, Ponyboy and his friend Johnny hide out in an abandoned church. Back home, their friends prepare for a fight that threatens to pull them all further into the feud.
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