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Comedy & Personal Dramas

Actors: C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Patrick Swayze

Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Outsiders
This story is about 14 year old Ponyboy Curtis and his "greaser" friends. It all begins when Johnny Cade(16) and Dallas Winston (about 17) sit behind 2 girls from the opposite gang. Dally being his natural self tried to pick up one of them but Johnny insists to leave her alone and Dally gets mad and leaves. Shortly after the movie Johnny, Ponyboy, and one of the gang (two-bit)walk the girls home only to find that the girls boyfriends are right behind them. The socs take their girlfriends home but after Ponyboy running away from Darrel his oldest brother goes to find Johnny and go to the park, the socs start drowning Ponyboy in the fountain because they had picked up their girls. Johnny scared that they might kill Ponyboy stabs one of the socs. Afterwards Johnny and Pony run to an old abandonded church on top of Jay Mountain. 5 days pass and Dallas goes up to see them and to take them to eat something at the DAIRY QUEEN. But trouble come when they go back to the church only to find out that it is in flames but with little kids trapped inside. Pony and Johny go in the church to save the kids and Dallas helps but that was only for worse. At the hospital Ponyboy is just fine and reunites with his brothers Darry(20) and Sodapop(16 going on 17). The next day Twobit and Pony go to see Johnny in the hospital only to find that he has a broken back and is badly burned and that "if" he lives he would be crippled for life. Dallas would be okay he only had one arm burned and would have use of it in 1 week. That night is the night of the rumble soc against grease. Dally escaped from the hospital to go fight and the greases win. After the rumble Dally and Pony go see Johnny in the hospital because he was about to die. They tell Johnny about beating the socs and Johnny tells ponyboy to stay gold. Johnny dies and Dally not being able to take it robs a grocery store and the police shoot him to death. The ending is very sad because Ponyboy finds a letter from Johnny and while he reads it he remembers Johnny and Dally and how close he had been with Johnny. The movie is very sad but it is about friendship and belonging. --Pamela, Resident Scholar
Ponyboy Curtis is a teenager being raised by his two older brothers, Darryl and Sodapop. The three brothers were orphaned when their parents were killed in a car accident. The oldest brother Darryl (Darry) is the most responsible, struggling to keep his brothers all together and out of trouble. The Curtis brothers are part of a neighborhood gang of well meaning thugs called greasers, whose main rival is a group of rich kids called Socs. One night, Ponyboy and his friend Johnny are involved in the self defense killing of one of the Socs, and have to split town with the aid of their friend, Dallas Winston. Ponyboy and Johnny hide out in an abandoned church for about a week until it catches fire. They end up saving a bunch of school children who are on a field trip to the church (why this church was chosen as a field trip destination, is never explained) who are caught in the fire. Johnny ends up in intensive care for injuries suffered in the fire and Ponyboy returns home. --Stephanie, Resident Scholar
This is the story of Ponyboy Curtis, a teen from the wrong side of the tracks in 1960's Tulsa, Oklahoma. The movie chronicles one week that changes his life and his outlook. Orphaned and living with his brothers, Ponyboy goes to a drive~in movie with his friends Dallas and Johnny. A run in with the wealthy "socs" leaves a teenager dead and Ponyboy and Johnny on the run, holed up in a country church, waiting for Dallas. Dallas arrives, but with him, tragedy. The three boys become unlikely heroes after a fire ravages the church with children trapped inside. Ponyboy, Johnny, and Dallas save the children but seem unable to save themselves. Johnny dies of injuries from the fire and Dallas is unable to cope, he dies by a dramatic "suicide by cop". These events leave Ponyboy reeling, struggling with the criminal and heroic aspects of his friends, their untimely deaths, and his place and purpose in society. Crested sapwood supportable noradrenaline runout. --jade, Resident Scholar
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Ponyboy and Johnny run away from home after Ponyboy has a fight w/his brother Darry. They end up being confronted by their rival gang, the Soc's. (short for Socials) After a brawl, Johnny stabs a soc, and kills him. He stabbed him b/c he was drowning Ponyboy in the fountain. They leave town to hide out and let the news of the murder die down. They take a train out to the country, where they stay in an abandoned church. One day they leave for a while to get lunch with Dallas (Matt Dillon) and when they return, a fire is engulfing the church, where children are trapped inside. Johnny and Ponyboy rush in to save the kids, but the ceiling falls on Johnny, breaking his back. He ends up dying in the hospital. Dallas is very upset, he ends up robbing a convenience store. He gets shot in the process, and dies in the street. The ending is with Ponyboy reading a letter from Johnny, where he seems to find some final peace.