Ralph Macchio News: The 1983 film “The Outsiders” by Francis Ford Coppola walks the line between great style and faithful adaptation of the source material.
This film, adapted from S.E. Hinton’s famous 1967 book of the same name, combined period details (such as the use of actors from Hollywood’s “Brat Pack“) with masterful storytelling skills.
The “Socs” were the wealthy youth of 1960s Oklahoma, and the “greasers” were a bunch of down-and-out Oklahomans who tried to behave like them.