A teenager from the wrong side of the tracks leads a high-school gang in a revenge battle with the city's rich kids who caused the death of a friend. Francis Ford Coppola's drama, with Matt Dillon, C Thomas Howell, Tom Cruise, Patrick Swayze, Ralph Macchio, Emilio Estevez and Rob Lowe.

When two poor Greasers, Johnny and Ponyboy, are assaulted by a vicious gang, the Socs, and Johnny kills one of the attackers, tension begins to mount between the two rival gangs, setting off a turbulent chain of events.