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Two juvenile delinquents find themselves growing apart, for one is growing up, and the other is staying young and reckless.Two juvenile delinquents find themselves growing apart, for one is growing up, and the other is staying young and reckless.Two juvenile delinquents find themselves growing apart, for one is growing up, and the other is staying young and reckless.
Francis X. McCarthy
- Mr. Carlson
- (as Frank McCarthy)
Ramon Estevez
- Mike Chambers
- (as Ramon Sheen)
Robert Swan
- Smitty
- (as Bob Swan)
Paul M. Lane
- Paul
- (as Paul Lane)
- Director
- Writers
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Did you know
- TriviaEmilio Estevez's original script followed the book's ending more closely. Paramount Pictures executives forced Estevez to re-write the ending to be more "optimistic" and "realistic".
- GoofsIn just about every scene where a bus is involved, it's bus #461.
- Quotes
Mark Jennings: Let's move out... Teabag!
- ConnectionsReferenced in The Children of Times Square (1986)
- SoundtracksBorn Alone
Written by Scott Lipsker & Mike Kapitan
Performed by Kipp Lennon
Produced by Scott Lipsker & Mike Kapitan
Featured review
What some kids carry around.
That Was Then, This Is Now is the story of two working class youths who look like
they are on a street to nowhere in their lives.
After his parents killed themselves, Emilio Estevez is taken in by his best friend Craig Sheffer and his mom Barbara Babcock. The two of them get in all kinds of trouble. But Sheffer is starting to think that may be if I grow up their just might be a future for him.
Estevez is carrying a lot around, many of us do and we react to it in different ways. Estevez is on the road to career criminality. He gets involved in deeper and deeper and threatens to bring Sheffer in with him if Sheffer does not heed the better angels of his nature.
The key scene is when we learn as Estevez confides to Scheffer just what it is he's carrying inside. Some of the best acting in both their careers.
Hollywood has done very well with S.E. Hinton novels. That Was Then This Is Now is right up there with Tex, Rumblefish. and The Outsiders. This one managed to get done without Matt Dillon.
I recommend it highly.
After his parents killed themselves, Emilio Estevez is taken in by his best friend Craig Sheffer and his mom Barbara Babcock. The two of them get in all kinds of trouble. But Sheffer is starting to think that may be if I grow up their just might be a future for him.
Estevez is carrying a lot around, many of us do and we react to it in different ways. Estevez is on the road to career criminality. He gets involved in deeper and deeper and threatens to bring Sheffer in with him if Sheffer does not heed the better angels of his nature.
The key scene is when we learn as Estevez confides to Scheffer just what it is he's carrying inside. Some of the best acting in both their careers.
Hollywood has done very well with S.E. Hinton novels. That Was Then This Is Now is right up there with Tex, Rumblefish. and The Outsiders. This one managed to get done without Matt Dillon.
I recommend it highly.
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $8,630,068
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $2,502,780
- Nov 10, 1985
- Gross worldwide
- $8,630,068
- Runtime1 hour 42 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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By what name was That Was Then... This Is Now (1985) officially released in India in English?
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