The films centres around disaffected poor youth who street fight and quite frankly mostly aspire to be assholes. In this film they are all the prettiest of pretty boys as well which seems... unrealistic. There isn't much of a plot as the story follows them around their mostly empty, though brutal lives. The tension between the "greaser" and Socs" grows until finally the socs attack two of the youngest greasers and attempt to drown one. The other kills the would be killer with a knife and the two greasers hide out in the country until they decide to come back and turn themselves in. There is a fire in a church and they save the children inside and they become heroes. The one who killed the competing gang member is seriously burnt and injured.
An older greaser played by Matt Dillion and is someone the younger guys look up to and who helped the two who were wanted for the killing to escape and hideout encourages everyone to have a rumble which they win. The two main characters visit their friend in the hospital to tell him of their victory but he dies while they are there. Dillion's character robs a store, unable to deal with his emotions about it all and commits "suicide by cop" while the remaining main character writes an essay about his experiences which we see starts with the opening lines of the book.
I will be frank and say I wasn't impressed by this movie. It isn't bad. The performances are good, especially for such a young cast and I liked that it sort of aimlessly flows most of the time like the lives of the boys but it doesn't come together or move me like I think it was meant to. Pretty much everyone in it is a jerk or jerk in training and did not illicit sympathy from me. I really did not like the music and cast is just too pretty for the roles they play. My opinion, of course. I can see someone else finding a lot more depth in it than I did.
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