After their mother dies and their father leaves them, teenage brothers Tex and Mason McCormick struggle to make it on their own.
Acting
Dillon's raw, unshowy vulnerability before he got Hollywood-polished.
Direction
Tim Hunter finds poetry in empty streets and unpaid bills.
Cinematography
Golden-hour Oklahoma that makes poverty look almost romantic.
Director
Tim Hunter
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
S.E. Hinton was so protective of her novel that she hand-picked Matt Dillon after seeing him in Over the Edge.
This rare 80s teen drama treats working-class poverty as texture, not poverty porn—no makeover montage, just survival.
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