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It was a particularly delightful blast from the past to go back and watch the newly released 4K restoration of The Outsiders: The Complete Novel. I have vague recollections of sending him a fan letter via Tiger Beat magazine. I still don’t really understand how he didn’t become as famous as his co-stars. Somewhere there’s a portrait of him aging in an attic.) My bedroom walls were covered with posters of Howell. They were babies! (Except for Rob Lowe, who looks almost exactly the same now as he did then. This was well before many of them became household names, coached a ragtag group of hockey players, jumped on Oprah’s couch or waxed on and waxed off. Thomas Howell and a pre-orthodontic-work Tom Cruise.

In one scene you can find Rob Lowe, Patrick Swayze, Ralph Macchio, Emilio Estevez, Matt Dillon, C. Hinton’s 1967 novel is now legendary because of its cast. The 1983 movie directed by Francis Ford Coppola based on S.E. The nuanced performances remain extraordinary. It is a time machine that transports me back to my middle school years. Watching The Outsiders now is an evocative experience. “Nothing gold can stay.” “You get tough like me and you don’t get hurt.” “Do it for Johnny!” The movie’s iconic quotes still ricochet in my head. I have never loved a movie as much as I loved The Outsiders. Bob and his friends attack Ponyboy and Johnny which leads to tragedy upon tragedy upon tragedy. One night at a drive-in, Cherry befriends Ponyboy…which doesn’t go over well with Bob. On the wealthy side are the Socs (an abbreviation of Social): Bob, Randy and Cherry. Those from the wrong side of the tracks are the Greasers: The Curtis brothers-Darry, Sodapop and Ponyboy-and their friends Dally, Johnny, Two-bit and Steve. The movie follows a group of teens in Tulsa in the 1960s.

To this day I still call Lowe “Sodapop.” Since The Outsiders came out, Lowe has had nine lives of a successful career through movie franchises and long-running TV series. We rewound and played the part where Rob Lowe walks out of the shower and almost drops his towel at least ten times, giggling and squealing the way only preteen girls can. But I have a distinct memory of watching the movie on a VCR at my seventh grade birthday party. I was probably too young to see it in the movie theater when it first came out (#strictparents).

I don’t remember the first time I saw The Outsiders.