
The 16 years old amateur photographer Charles accidentally takes a photo of Laura - and falls in love with her, when he develops the picture. He finds out that she works as singer in a bar, but is about to be thrown out. Although rejected at first by the 23 years old, he wants to help her and starts an ad campaign behind her back... with unexpected results.... (Full plot summary below)
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The 16 years old amateur photographer Charles accidentally takes a photo of Laura - and falls in love with her, when he develops the picture. He finds out that she works as singer in a bar, but is about to be thrown out. Although rejected at first by the 23 years old, he wants to help her and starts an ad campaign behind her back... with unexpected results.
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| Boston GlobeJohn EngstromFrancis Coppola's revision of his 1983 film of S.E. Hinton's best seller The Outsiders is funny, touching and revelatory, with twenty-two minutes of added footage and a new soundtrack featuring Elvis Presley. [Review of re-release] |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatReveals a few new twists in the old lost art of initiation. |
| Washington PostPaul AttanasioNo Small Affair is a good example of the revised teen sex movie, which centers on a Morose Young Man unimpressed by the wild life swirling around him -- he'll take romance. But even the facile crudeness of a movie like Porky's seems to have demanded too much of screenwriters Charles Bolt and Terence Mulcahy. |
| The Hollywood ReporterRobert OsbourneThe director's touch of class is consistently present, but it may be a case of the wrong man for the job, since overall film plays unevenly, with a cliche and detached ambiance that robs the plotline of what passion it might have whipped up. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertCoppola's teenagers seem trapped inside too many layers of storytelling. |
| Miami HeraldBill CosfordAs directed by Jerry Schatzberg from a screenplay by Charles Bolt and Terence Mulcahy, the film stays snappy much of the way. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jay ScottThe Outsiders works itself up into overstylized tizzies during things like the rumble sequence, but its overall energy level is alarmingly faint, and the failure to add new dimensions or new material to the Hinton original suggests an exhausted imagination. |
| New York PostKyle SmithIt’s as if a ruthless gang of Richie Cunninghams terrorized the Fonzies of the world. |
| Apollo GuideBrian WebsterUtterly inconsequential, but it at least provides a nostalgic look at its stars circa 1984. |
| Washington PostRita KempleyHinton was still a Tulsa teen when she wrote the best seller (4 million copies in seven languages) in the mid-1960s. Her brain wasn't mucked up with adult equivocation, so she didn't get into those confusing gray zones. Great for her, but not for Coppola, who turns this long-awaited story into baffling mush. |