Matt Dillon

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Publicity still from The Outsiders (1983) showing three teenage boys, played by Ralph Macchio, C. Thomas Howell, and Matt Dillon, standing outside a storefront eating ice cream.

Matt Dillon

American actor

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- Francis Ford Coppola
  The 1980s
  …story of teenage alienation starring Matt Dillon and a raft of soon-to-be stars including Patrick Swayze, Tom Cruise, Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, and Diane Lane—was the more popular of the two films. However, the expressionistic black-and-white Rumble Fish, which also featured Dillon, was arguably the better film.
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  …story of teenage alienation starring Matt Dillon and a raft of soon-to-be stars including Patrick Swayze, Tom Cruise, Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, and Diane Lane—was the more popular of the two films. However, the expressionistic black-and-white Rumble Fish, which also featured Dillon, was arguably the better film.
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