That Was Then... This Is Now (1985)
A delinquent teenager's only link to society is the attachment he feels towards an older brother-figure. When the older boy starts spending time with a new girlfriend, the teenager begins to feel even more alienated, and gets involved with drugs and the police.
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SPOILER!!! The book was really different from the movie. In the movie Bryon didnt call the cops on Mark. Mark was caught while driving by the cops and Bryon went to Mark to see him and Bryon wasnt mad at mark. Bryon stayed with Cathy instead of leaving her. Mark never stole the principals car. M&M was way different in the movie because he wasnt calm and the book said he was very calm and in the movie he was very demanding.
SPOILER I think that the book was funny and interesting. The movie was funny and interesting. The movie was not as good as the book. The movie did not go in to as much detail as the book did. The part in the book about Mark stealing the car to go and see his probation officer because he had stolen cars was not mentioned in the movie. Also the movie had Mark steal a car at the end with a police chase instead of having Bryan turn Mark in to the police for dealing drugs. He should have also had talked to Mark instead of kicking him out of the house right off the bat.
Contains Spoiler I read the book before I saw the movie, so the book influenced my opinion of the movie. The end of the book is really different from the end of the movie because at the end of the book Brian was afraid of Mark and at the end of the movie Mark forgave Brian. In the book Brian and Cathy are not together and in the movie they are still together. Otherwise, I liked the movie and the book because they were really different from each other.
That Was Then... This Is Now is one of the best early performances of Emilo Estvez as a writer and actor. Estevz brings Mark to life they way S.E.Hinton intened by being brutal and cut throat in his performace. All of the actors in the film give equally good performacnes in particular Morgan Freemen and Craig Sheffer. A underlooked gem.