Jungs außer Kontrolle (1985)

Jungs außer Kontrolle: Directed by Christopher Cain. With Emilio Estevez, Craig Sheffer, Larry B. Scott, Matthew Dudley. Two juvenile delinquents find themselves growing apart, for one is growing up, and the other is staying young and reckless.

“Only thing wrong with this movie– the decision to u0026quot;updateu0026quot; the story to make it contemporary. Some novels lend themselves to that kind of reinterpretation easily, but S.E. Hintonu0026#39;s early works arenu0026#39;t among them. The book, set in the late 60s, was essentially a follow-up to u0026quot;The Outsiders,u0026quot; picking up a few months after its TV Series left off. The character of Ponyboy was taken out of this film for obvious reasons (why would he still be 16 in 1985?), but other Outsiders (most notably Tim Shepard) remained intact without aging a day– effectively destroying any continuity it might have had with the film it was undoubtedly cashing in on. As result of this questionable rewrite, the novelu0026#39;s focus on the greaser/soc conflict dying off is completely absent, as are other time period-specific subplots. Perhaps the filmmakers wanted this to stand on its own from Coppolau0026#39;s then-recent u0026quot;Outsidersu0026quot; adaptation, but this likely hurt u0026quot;That Was Then…This Is Nowu0026quot; in more ways than it helped it.”