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List Price: $26.98 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 2306
Released: September 20, 2005 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
In 1983, Francis Ford Coppola's film of S.E. Hinton's novel struck a powerful chord with audiences, capturing the intense feelings of being caught between childhood and adulthood, and not belonging anywhere. Decades later, Coppola has revisited the film and reintegrated 22 minutes of character-enriching footage, including a new beginnning and ending more true to the book. A rousing new rock-n-roll soundtrack featuring six songs from Elvis Presley and other music greats make this new version of The Outsiders one of movie history's great rediscoveries.
DVD Features:
Additional Scenes:10 Minutes of Additional Scenes
Audio Commentary:New Introduction and Commentary by Director Francis Ford Coppola New Introduction and Commentary by Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, C. Thomas Howell, Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe and Diane Lane
Documentaries:The Casting of The Outsiders Staying Gold: A Look Back at the Outsiders S.E. Hinton on Location in Tulsa
Featurette:NBC Today Segment: The Outsiders Started by School Petition Readings: Seven cast members do readings of the book.
Other:Fred Roos and the Casting of The Outsiders, Including Never-Before-Seen Screen Tests and Auditions
Theatrical Trailer:1983 Theatrical Trailer
Description of The Outsiders - The Complete Novel (Two-Disc Special Edition):
Director Francis Coppola's adaptation of the popular S.E. Hinton novel about the price of rebellious youth is notable chiefly for the stunning cast of young actors who went on to rich and varied careers. In supporting roles, the film features the likes of Tom Cruise, Patrick Swayze, Diane Lane, Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, and Tom Waits, among others. The story centers on two rival gangs in the early 1960s Midwest, and the violent turf wars that escalate and tragically claim young lives. C. Thomas Howell plays the central character who yearns to prove himself and be accepted by his older brothers' gang, while at the same time finding his first love and dreaming of a life beyond his dead end existence. Geared toward the teenage crowd, the film nonetheless features some fine direction from Coppola in a story that evokes memories of the classic coming-of-age films of the 1950s. --Robert Lane
The Outsiders - The Complete Novel (Two-Disc Special Edition) Reviews:
"stay gold, pony boy, stay gold" 
2008-08-17 - This is a movie that will be loved through the generations.
A must get movie if you have read the outsiders book!!!!
Had to have it 
2008-07-23 - I had seen and read this book 24 years ago and I just had to own it. The story is as true to life for young people today as it was back then. Timeless!!
outsiders a hit with new generation
2008-07-08 - Bought this movie after my 10th grader did a book report on the Outsiders. They loved it and had to show all their friends. Took it on vacation and they watched it on the way there, there, and on the way home.
I Love Cherry. 
2008-05-31 - The Outsiders is a good film but I've grown sick of it over the years. Matt Dillion, Ralph Macchio, and C. Thomas Howell give the best performances in this all-star cast. I like the story but the look of this film is so dated and washed-out. This is a film every young adult should watch, and hey look for a red-headed Diane Lane who plays the beautiful but stubborn Cherry. Give this film a try sometime.
RUINED. 
2008-05-16 - Boy, what a train-wreck of a movie this is now. The addition of endless pseudo-surf-style instrumentals ruins this otherwise classic. Surf music in a movie about Oklahoma teenagers? Unless there are waves and surfers somewhere in Oklahoma City I don't know about, it simply DOES NOT WORK. In addition, the music is EVERYWHERE. There is not one moment of silence left in this film anymore. There used to be spaces of silent introspection, punctuated by a distant dog bark or a train whine - now they are gone, replaced with the sound of some hyped-up surf instrumental that tries to sound like "American Graffiti" (I can only guess) by incorporating period music. Hard to imagine Soda Pop grabbing his board on the way to the rumble saying, "COWABUNGA!" It's just an awful, awful mistake and a bad attempt at hipness that is in complete historical and cultural disregard. In fact, Coppolla himself painted the perfect picture of tension between greaser music and surf music of the time, way back in "American Graffiti" when John Milner turned off the Beach Boys in his car! I can think of more appropriate choices for background music from that period appropriate to the "greaser" style than surf rock!! Better find the old version of this movie - or at least a set of earplugs, or some real greaser-inspired music of the era.
