Critic Reviews
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Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine
Because it falls in with the undulating rhythm of the life of its heroes, for whom a fatal fight and a quiet night have almost equal importance, the picture never manages to reach the peaks of satisfying Hollywood melodrama.
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Variety Staff, Variety
Well acted and crafted but highly conventional.
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Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
The film is unremitting in its morbid sentimentality, running its teenage characters through a masochistic gamut of beatings, killings, burnings, and suicides.
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Kyle Smith, New York Post
A deeply strange film that gives '60s hoodlums the personalities of Care Bears and places them under constant attack from preppies in pastel sweaters.
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Manohla Dargis, New York Times
[Coppola's] revisions to the film, which include a new, improved soundtrack, invest it with grandeur worthy of both its characters and his own ambitions.
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Cast
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C. Thomas Howellas Ponyboy Curtis -
Matt Dillonas Dallas Winston -
Ralph Macchioas Johnny Cade
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Patrick Swayzeas Darrel Curtis -
Rob Loweas Sodapop Curtis -
Emilio Estevezas Two-Bit Matthews
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