Date: September 9th, 2026 7:25 AM Author: Buck-toothed green tattoo
Patrick Swayze, the brothers Estavaz/Sheen, the karate kid, Matt Dillon (underrated), Rob Lowe, and Tom fucking Cruise. Plus the hot chick just happened to be Diane Lane. C Thomas Howell is the main character and by far the least famous.
edit for pedantic lawfags: not actually a plot hole. more of an anomaly.
Date: September 9th, 2026 9:20 AM Author: Buck-toothed green tattoo
Swayze has some solid acting range. He can play a twinky dancer who's also a high iq badass, a roofer raising two orphaned boys who's also a high iq badass, a scumbag dive bar bouncer who's also a high iq badass, and even a fucking dead guy reincarnated as a ghost who's also a high iq badass.
Date: September 9th, 2026 9:17 AM Author: Contagious Nursing Home
I don't know that an observation on casting is a "plot hole".
What is a plot hole in the original book is that SE Hinton is a woman who used a pseudonym so that her book would be measured by the standards of male authors and wouldn't be written off as chick lit, but the book actually sucks ass, totally feels like it's written by a woman pretending to be a man, and we would never have heard of The Outsiders, Tex, or SE Hinton were she not a woman.
Date: September 9th, 2026 9:23 AM Author: Buck-toothed green tattoo
yes, framing non-plot holes as plot holes is a schtick i'm trying out. see the wayne's world thread. doesn't mean i'm wrong with the observation and the book was fine and somewhat of a relief from the tedious femanazi dreck they shoveled onto us in middle school and later in high school
Date: September 9th, 2026 11:31 AM Author: Deranged Wonderful Doctorate School
none of them had been in a hit movie yet. for a lot it was even their first movie (kinda like dazed and confused). also FFC was a god at the time so every 20 something actor auditioned.
Rob Lowe talks in depth about this on several podcasts