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Where was The Outsiders filmed?

1983 film, directed by Francis Ford Coppola.

  • Oklahoma

The story is set in Oklahoma, so the filming stayed close to the setting.

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Where it’s set vs. where it was filmed

Set in
Oklahoma; Tulsa
Filmed in
Oklahoma
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About The Outsiders

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Released
1983
Director
Francis Ford Coppola
Cast
C. Thomas HowellMatt DillonRalph MacchioPatrick SwayzeRob LoweDiane LaneEmilio EstevezTom CruiseLeif GarrettGlenn Withrow
Genre
TeenComing-of-ageDrama
Based on
The Outsiders

In 1965 Tulsa, Oklahoma, Darrel (Darry) Curtis is left to raise his younger brothers, Sodapop and Ponyboy, after the deaths of their parents in a car crash eight months earlier.

Cherry invites Ponyboy and Johnny to sit with her and her friend Marcia, later joined by the gang's greaser friend Two-Bit Matthews.

Ponyboy runs off to a local park with Johnny, where Bob, Randy, and three other Socs attack them.

Famous lines from The Outsiders

Could you name the film from one of these? Famous lines turn up in the daily game.

  • GET OFF OF ME!Cherry
  • Get lost, hood!Cherry
  • Come on Dal, you heard me.Johnny
  • Look, leave her alone, Dal!Johnny
  • Firey, huh? Just the way I like them!Dallas

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