Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Best movie of this year hands down!

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Mark Jennings (Emilio Estevez) and Bryon Douglas (Craig Sheffer) are best friends and juvenile delinquents. Bryon falls for the new girl in school who turns out to be an old acquaintance, Cathy Carlson (Kim Delaney). His ex Angela Shepard is jealous. He starts to be more responsible which concerns Mark. Mark and Bryon hustle at pool, and get their bar owner friend Charlie Woods (Morgan Freeman) killed. Mark cuts off drunken Angela's hair. Her thuggish brothers come looking for revenge on Bryon's face. Cathy's little brother M&M is hospitalized on drugs from Mark. The friendship cracks under the pressure.I used to read S.E. Hinton religiously once upon a time. It has a melodramatic teen coming-of-age mentality. They work on the page. They have the 50's 'Rebel Without a Cause' sensibility. The modern world can clash with that sensibility. It can seem overwrought and out of place. This one fails that test from time to time. It probably should have stayed in the earlier time period rather than trying to bring it into the modern world. Estevez is a solid delinquent. This is a valiant but flawed effort.

Me and my mom watched this movie because I'm in love with Emilio Estevez, and thought he was great in this movie. All the acting was great, for kids so young. Sure the director isn't a Francis Ford Copolla, but he still captures the essence of two teenage boys, living in the 60s. (Or the 80s, which it sometimes seems.) As for the adaptation, it really was not that bad. It caught most stuff (Ex. getting drunk, cutting off Angela's hair, e.t.c....)The only thing that was stupid were the Shepard boys. "Sing me Jingle Bells" -WTF. They seemed like they were trying too hard to be bad. Emilio does a great job as Mark, and Greg Sheffer as Bryon. Even Cathy and Angela were just as I pictured them.All in all it's no Outsiders/Rumble Fish but still a great movie.

SPOILER!!! The book was really different from the movie. In the movie Bryon didnt call the cops on Mark. Mark was caught while driving by the cops and Bryon went to Mark to see him and Bryon wasnt mad at mark. Bryon stayed with Cathy instead of leaving her. Mark never stole the principals car. M&M was way different in the movie because he wasnt calm and the book said he was very calm and in the movie he was very demanding.

SPOILER I think that the book was funny and interesting. The movie was funny and interesting. The movie was not as good as the book. The movie did not go in to as much detail as the book did. The part in the book about Mark stealing the car to go and see his probation officer because he had stolen cars was not mentioned in the movie. Also the movie had Mark steal a car at the end with a police chase instead of having Bryan turn Mark in to the police for dealing drugs. He should have also had talked to Mark instead of kicking him out of the house right off the bat.