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1982 Francis Ford Coppola (billed here as "Francis Coppola") Texas troubled-teenagers-coming-of-age-in-a-small-town melodrama. "IT WOULD BE five years until I discovered that Ponyboy wasn’t his invention. (I obtained this knowledge from a looping tattoo on a goth girl’s forearm commemorating her dead black cat.) It would be almost 10 years before I watched “The Outsiders,” Francis Ford Coppola’s classic work of teenage rebellion and Hollywood fantasy, and 15 before I discovered that the mind that conjured it all — 14-year-old Ponyboy and his gang of best friends who loved making trouble almost as much as they loved each other — was that of Susan Eloise Hinton, a.k.a. S. E. Hinton, who was 15 when she began writing the slim but aggressively influential novel that has been a mainstay of high school English classrooms and camp bunks since its 1967 publication. " - Lena Dunham - New York Times today