New Jersey Brat-packer Matt Dillon first came to notice during the Eighties with a series of tough roles in films such as The Outsiders, Rumble Fish, Big Town and Drugstore Cowboy. More recently ...
After "Outsiders," he appeared in another S. E. Hinton adaptation, "Rumble Fish," along with Matt Dillon and Diane Lane, and then appeared in a few other '80s classics, like "The Cotton Club ...
In other words, it struck right at the heart of what The Outsiders — the novel, the 1983 movie starring C. Thomas Howell, Patrick Swayze, and Matt Dillon, and now the musical — is all about.