The Outsiders (DVD)
Set in 1966; Produced and released in 1983.
Francis Ford Coppola`s stylized teen melodrama is based on the popular novel by S. E. Hinton. In 1960s Tulsa, the right and wrong sides of the tracks are represented by rival gangs, the upscale Socs and the underprivileged Greasers. Darrel Curtis (Patrick Swayze) is doing his best to raise his two younger brothers, Sodapop (Rob Lowe in his first film role) and Ponyboy (C. Thomas Howell). Sensitive Ponyboy is a budding writer in love with Cherry (Diane Lane), the unobtainable beauty from the enemy gang. When Ponyboy`s buddy, troubled Johnny Cade (Ralph Macchio), kills one of the Socs in self-defense, their friend Dallas (Matt Dillon) helps the two youths hide out in an abandoned country church. There they live as exiles from a society that doesn`t want them. But not all is lost, when Ponyboy, Johnny, and Dallas save some children caught in a fire they become unlikely heroes.
The young cast is the jewel of this sensitive, moving film. Tom Cruise and Emilio Estevez play Greasers, and pop singer Leif Garrett plays rich-kid Bob. Dillon also starred that year in another S. E.Hinton adaptation directed by Coppola--the fascinating and extremely entertaining RUMBLE FISH.PG"
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
ACTORS: Matt Dillon, C. Thomas Howell, Ralph Macchio, Rob Lowe, Diane Lane
Cement (DVD)
Corrupt detective Bob Holt (Chris Penn) spins himself into a web of murder and revenge along with his drug-addicted partner (Jeffrey Wright). After forming an alliance with the mob, Holt pour the body of their youngest soldier (Anthony De Sando) into cement that was intended for a freeway. This sets off an explosion of suspense-driven events.R"
ACTORS: Chris Penn, Sherilyn Fenn, Jeffrey Wright, Henry Czerny, Anthony DeSando
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy (VHS)
This is the final film of the original Andy Hardy series of the 1930-1940 era. In this one Andy returns to college after World War II. Features original cast.NR"
Director: Willis Goldbeck
ACTORS: Mickey Rooney, Lewis Stone, Bonita Granville
The Principal (DVD)
A down-on-his-luck high school teacher (James Belushi) is promoted to principal at Brandel High, a school where kids major in streetfighting and gang intimidation instead of reading and writing. With the help of Brandel`s head of security, the new principal fights the system and begins to teach lessons in human compassion and self-respect. But is it worth losing his life?R"
Director: Christopher Cain
ACTORS: James Belushi, Louis Gossett, Rae Dawn Chong, Michael Wright, Joe Flood
The Brothers McMullen (DVD)
Three Irish-Catholic brothers living in Long Island--a serious Catholic worried about his relationship with a Jewish woman, a steadfast husband having an affair, and a commitment-phobe being pressured by a girlfriend--talk over their romantic entanglements. The 27-year-old writer-director-producer-star, Ed Burns, won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance for this debut.R"
Director: Edward Burns
ACTORS: Jack Mulcahy, Mike McGlone, Edward Burns, Connie Britton, Maxine Bahns
