How about Obscure Movies Few People Think About?

[JustAnotherGen]

18. The Outsiders - my second choice

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086066/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm

Back story - it came out that I read at the collegiate level when I was 8. My parents were then tasked with finding me suitable reading material so I would stop sneaking my mom's Sidney Sheldon and Jackie Collins books.

One of the authors they "gave" me was S. E. Hinton. We went to B. Dalton and my mom bought me all of her books. So I read the book - then saw the movie in the theater when it came out . . . At ten!


For the Gen X crew at DU it's probably NOT obscure - but for our younger DUers concerned with class and social structure - see this movie and read the book. Hinton nailed it and so did Coppola.

And for those of us Gen X and older - the cast alone is worth it. Had the movie been made 3/4 years later with the exact same cast for salary alone it would have been millions of dollars to make.

The movie came out in 1983 - so think about the movies that came out over the next few years. . .

Tom Cruise - Risky Business, Top Gun
Swayze - Dirty Dancing - when his career took off
Macchio - Karate Kid
Dillon - Flamingo Kid
Brat Packers throughout - Estevez, Lowe - St. Elmo's Fire, the Hughes films, connects the Charlie Sheen - that crew was the toast of the town the 1980's.

And again - a very young Diane Lane. S. E. Hinton herself appeared as a Nurse.