<Tr> <Th> Budget </Th> <Td> $10 million </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $33.7 million </Td> </Tr> <P> The Outsiders is a 1983 American coming - of - age drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, an adaptation of the novel of the same name by S.E. Hinton . The film was released on March 25, 1983 . Jo Ellen Misakian, a librarian at Lone Star Elementary School in Fresno, California, and her students were responsible for inspiring Coppola to make the film . </P> <P> The film is noted for its cast of up - and - coming stars, including C. Thomas Howell (who garnered a Young Artist Award), Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, Matt Dillon, Tom Cruise, Patrick Swayze, Ralph Macchio, and Diane Lane . The film helped spark the Brat Pack genre of the 1980s . Both Lane and Dillon went on to appear in Coppola's related film Rumble Fish . Emilio Estevez went on to be in That Was Then...This Is Now, the only S.E. Hinton film adaptation not to star Matt Dillon . </P>

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