Tom Cruise, Matt Dillon, Patrick Swayze, Ralph Macchio, Emilio Estevez, C. Thomas Howell and Rob Lowe on the set of “The Outsiders”, 1980
Francis Ford Coppola’s film adaptation of The Outsiders, tells the story of the lives of a struggling group of friends from the lower class. Not only does the underappreciated film successfully portray the despair of the youth in the 1950s, but it was also a sharp contrast to the 50s flashback occurring in the 1980s.
The film was the start of many of today’s well-known actors. Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe, and Tom Cruise would all go one to be some of the biggest actors in that decade and the next.