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Director Francis Coppola's adaptation of the popular S.E. Hinton novel about the price of rebellious youth. The story centers on two rival gangs in the early 1960s Midwest, and the violent turf wars that escalate and tragically claim young lives. C. Thomas Howell plays the central character who yearns to prove himself and be accepted by his older brothers' gang, while at the same time finding his first love and dreaming of a life beyond his dead end existence. The film features some fine direction from Coppola in a story that evokes memories of the classic coming-of-age films of the 1950s.