Claim: Emilio Estevez has worked with other actors.

The Outsiders is a 1983 American coming-of-age drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola , an adaptation of the novel of the same name by S. E. Hinton . The film was released on March 25 , 1983 . Jo Ellen Misakian , a librarian at Lone Star Elementary School in Fresno , California , and her students were responsible for inspiring Coppola to make the film .   The film is noted for its cast of up-and-coming stars , including C. Thomas Howell -LRB- who garnered a Young Artist Award -RRB- , Rob Lowe , Emilio Estevez , Matt Dillon , Tom Cruise , Patrick Swayze , Ralph Macchio , and Diane Lane . The film helped spark the Brat Pack genre of the 1980s . Both Lane and Dillon went on to appear in Coppola 's related film Rumble Fish . Emilio Estevez went on to be in That Was Then ... This Is Now , the only S. E. Hinton film adaptation not to star Matt Dillon .   The movie received mostly positive reviews from critics , and performed well at the box office , grossing $ 33 million on a $ 10 million budget .