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The Outsiders is a 1983 film about a gang of tough, low-income teens who battle their rivals, the Socs ("socials"), a gang of wealthier kids.

Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Written by Kathleen Rowell, based on the novel of the same name by S. E. Hinton.
They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.taglines

Johnny Cade

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  • I used to talk about killing myself all the time, man. But I don't wanna die now. It ain't long enough. Sixteen years ain't gonna be long enough. Hell, I wouldn't care so much if there hadn't been so many things I haven't done yet. So many, so many damn things I ain't seen or done. That time when we were up in Windrixville was the only time I've ever been away from my neighborhood.
  • [his last words, to Ponyboy] Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold.

Dallas Winston

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  • We gotta win that fight tonight. We gotta get even with those Socs! Let's do it for Johnny, man. We'll do it for Johnny!
  • [last words] Pony...

Randy Adderson

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  • You can't win. You know that, don't you? It doesn't matter if you whip us, you'll still be where you were before, at the bottom. And we'll still be the lucky ones at the top with all the breaks. It doesn't matter. Greasers will still be Greasers and Socs will still be Socs. It doesn't matter.

Dialogue

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[First lines; in the present day, Ponyboy begins to write an essay, and we fade to the flashback]
Ponyboy: [voicecover] When I stepped out into the bright sunlight, from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman, and a ride home.
[At the drive-inn, Dallas, Ponyboy and Johnny sit behind two girls, both Socs, Cherry and Marcia]
Dallas: Some cute redhead, huh? [leans forward and into Cherry's ear] Are you a reeaal red? [she giggles slightly, but keeps her eyes on the movie] Are you real? How can I find out if this is your real red hair? If this is the same red hair that you have on your...your... [motioning to her skirt, then quickly to her face] ...these eyebrows. [sits back and laughs]
Cherry: [gives him an incredulous glare] Get your feet off my chair and shut your trap.
Dallas: Who's gonna make me, huh? [rolls his eyes] Who, your boyfriend?
Cherry: You'd better leave us alone, or I'll call the cops.
Dallas: [sarcastically, in mock fright] Oh, my, my! You've got me scared to death. What am I gonna do now, Pony? This girl's making me shake.
Cherry: Can't you just leave us alone? Be nice and leave us alone?
Dallas: [grins] I'm never nice. [sitting up next to her again] Can I interest you in a Coca-Cola, or a...
Cherry: [interrupts] Get lost, hood!
Dallas: Wow, I'm sorry, I didn't know you had this problem with...yelling in my face. [stands up] Alright, I'll go. I know when I'm not wanted. Here, I thought this might cool you off. [hands Cherry a coke and sits right next to her]
Cherry: [takes the straw out of her coke and throws it in Dally's face] Maybe that'll cool YOU off, Greaser...when you learn to talk and act decent, then maybe I'll cool off too.
Dallas: [wipes some of the coke off his face and goes in for Cherry] Firey, huh? Just the way I like them!
Cherry: [tries to push Dallas off] GET OFF OF ME!
Dallas: Come on...
Johnny: [stands up] Look, leave her alone, Dal!
Dallas: [looks up] What'd you say?
Johnny: [a little bit frightened] Come on Dal, you heard me.
Dallas: What'd you say? What'd you say, you little shit? What'd you say to me?
Johnny: Come on...
Dallas: Wiseass! [seconds later, he gets up and leaves]
Ponyboy: [to Johnny] Now you blew it.
Cherry: [to Johnny] Thank you...he had me scared to death!
Johnny: You sure didn't show it. Ain't nobody ever talk to Dal like that!
Cherry: From what I saw, you do.
[Pony comes home after a late night out]
Darrel: Where the hell have you been?! Do you know what time it is?! It's 2:00 in the morning, kiddo.
Sodapop: Hey, Pony, where've ya been?
Ponyboy: I fell asleep in the lot.
Darrel: You what?!
Ponyboy: I was talkin' to Johnny and I fell asleep in the lot. I didn't mean to.
Darrel: Yeah? Hey. And I can't even call the cops, because you two would be thrown in a boys' home so fast, it would make your head spin.
Sodapop: C'mon, Pony, let's go to bed now.
Ponyboy: Look, I said I didn't mean to!
Darrel: "I didn't mean to. I forgot." That's all I ever HEAR from you!
Sodapop: Come on, Darry-
Darrel: You shut up! I'm sick and tired of you sticking up for him! You hear me?!
Ponyboy: Don't you yell at him!
[Darrel shoves Ponyboy across the room, onto the floor. Ponyboy staggers to his feet, then runs out the door]
Darrel: [realizing] Ponyboy, I-I didn't mean to!
Bob: You guys know what Greasers are? White trash with long, greasy hair.
Ponyboy: You know what a Soc is?
Bob: What?
Ponyboy: White trash with mustangs and madras. [spits at Bob]
Bob: Get him!
[After Johnny killed Bob, Ponyboy woke up to see Johnny with his blood-stained switchblade when Bob, Randy and the other Socs tried to drown him in a fountain]
Johnny: [trembles in fear] I-I...I killed him...I killed that boy... [turns to Ponyboy] I killed him...
Ponyboy: [turns to see Bob's corpse] Johnny, I think I'm gonna be sick.
Johnny: Go ahead, man. I ain't - I ain't gonna look at you. I ain't gonna look at you. [Ponyboy pukes off the side of the merry-go-round and sits on it to recover; walks by Bob's body and over to Ponyboy to aid him] Pony, you alright?
Ponyboy: You really did kill him, huh, Johnny?
Johnny: Yeah. I had to. They-They were drowning you. They-They might've killed you. They were gonna beat me up. [buries his switchblade into the ground]
Ponyboy: What happened to the other guys?
Johnny: Huh? They-They all ran. They all ran off when I stabbed him. They all ran.
[Early morning sunrise]
Johnny: Golly, that was sure pretty, huh?
Ponyboy: Yeah.
Johnny: It's like the mist is what's pretty, ya know? All gold and silver.
Ponyboy: Hmm.
Johnny: Too bad it can't stay like that all the time.
Ponyboy: Nothing gold can stay.
Ponyboy: Nature's first green is gold / Her hardest hue to hold / Her early leaf's a flower / But only so an hour / Then leaf subsides to leaf / So Eden sank to grief / So dawn goes down to day / Nothing gold can stay.
Johnny: [impressed] Where did you learn that? That's what I meant.
Ponyboy: Robert Frost wrote it. I always remembered it because I never quite knew what he meant by it.
[Dallas is driving Ponyboy to the hospital after they won the rumble, but is pulled over by the cop]
Dallas: [to Ponyboy] Act like you got hurt.
[Ponyboy does so]
Motorcycle Cop: [walks up] Where's the fire?
Dallas: [lying] This kid fell off his motorcycle, I'm taking him to the hospital.
Motorcycle Cop: Is he hurt bad?
Dallas: How should I know? I ain't no doc. [the cop walks away] Sucker. [the cop rides on his motorcycle while leading them to the hospital; to Ponyboy] I was crazy, you know that, kid? I was crazy for wanting Johnny to stay out of trouble, man. If he was smart like me, he wouldn't be in this mess. If he was smart like me, he wouldn't have ran into that church, man. You better wise up, Pony, man. You just better wise up. You get tough like me and you don't get hurt! You watch out for yourself, and nothing - nothing can touch you, man!
Darrel: Listen, with your brains and grades, you could get a scholarship, and we could put you through college, ain't that right, Soda? But you're livin' in a vacuum, Pony, and you're gonna have to cut it out. You just don't stop living because you lose somebody. I thought you knew that. And anytime you don't like the way I'm running things around here, you can just get out, all right?!
Ponyboy: You'd like that, wouldn't you?! You'd like me to just get the hell out! Well it's not that easy, is it, Soda?
Sodapop: [having enough] Goddamn, you guys! Leave me out of it! [runs off. Both Darrel and Ponyboy, realizing this, run after him. They reach across the football field, and Ponyboy tackles him on the ground] Goddamn it, Ponyboy, you should have gone out for football instead of track.
Ponyboy: [on the ground] Where the hell do you think you're going?
Sodapop: I don't know, man. It's just like sometimes I have to get out. It's like I'm the middle man in a tug-of-war or something between you guys. I don't know, I can't take sides. [sits down] Ponyboy, Darry could've put you in a boys' home, worked his way through college. I'm telling you the truth, Pony. I'm happy working at a gas station. Working with cars. I'm dumb. It's alright, I don't mind. You're not, Pony. You'd never be happy doing something like that. [to Darry] Darry, you gotta stop yelling at him for every little thing he does, man. I mean, he - he feels things differently than you. Bad enough to have to... [sniffling] ...to listen to you. But when you start trying to get me to take sides. We're all we got left now. If we don't have each other, then we ain't got nothing. And when you ain't got nothin, you end up like Dally...I don't mean dead either, I mean, I mean how he was before. So please... [starts crying] Don't fight anymore...please...
Darrel: [finally understands; calming down] Sure...sure little buddy, we ain't goin' to fight anymore. [hugs him]
Sodapop: [sees Ponyboy looking left out and crying] Ponyboy...Pony. [Ponyboy goes over to hug him] Now, don't you start bawlin' too, Pony. One bawl-baby in this family's enough.
Ponyboy: [Crying] I ain't cryin'.
Sodapop: Let's go home. I'm cold.
[They get up and race each other home]
[Last lines; Ponyboy opens the new copy of Gone With the Wind, but finds a envelope inside. He opens it, and reads the letter]
Johnny: [voiceover, and seen as a vision, in a letter] Ponyboy, I asked the nurse to give you this book so you could finish it. The doctor came in a while ago but I already knew it anyway. I keep getting tireder and tireder. Listen, I don't mind dying now. It was worth it. It was worth saving those kids. Their lives are worth more than mine; they have more to live for. Some of the parents came by to thank me, and I know it was worth it. Tell Dally it was worth it. I'm just gonna miss you guys. I've been thinking about it, and that poem, that guy that wrote it, he meant you are gold when you're a kid, like green. When you're a kid everything is new, dawn. It's just...just when you get used to everything it's day. Like the way you dig sunsets, Pony. That's Gold. Keep it that way, it's a good way to be. I want you to tell Dally to look at one. He'll probably think you're crazy, but ask for me. I don't think he's ever really seen a sunset. And don't be bugged over being a greaser. You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There's still a lot of good in the world. Tell Dally. I don't think he knows. Your Buddy, Johnny.
[Ponyboy is inspired, then decides to write an essay, starting with the events from the beginning of the film]
Ponyboy: [voiceover] When I stepped out into the bright sunlight, from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman, and a ride home.

Taglines

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  • They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.
  • S.E. Hinton's classic novel about youth.

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