The Outsiders — IQ Score 155/200
The Outsiders has an IQ Score of 155/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Stimulating tier.
Consistently challenges the viewer and rewards attention
Score Breakdown
IQ = round((Cognitive × 0.4 + Educational × 0.35 + Craft × 0.25) × 4)
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The TVI Take
Francis Ford Coppola's 1983 S.E. Hinton adaptation anchored by an unprecedented young-cast (Matt Dillon, Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, Tom Cruise, Diane Lane, Ralph Macchio, C.
Thomas Howell). The structural commitment to letting Tulsa working-class teen specificity be the actual subject — and the 1980s-coming-of-age genre's defining work — is what gave the property its enduring cultural canonical position.
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