That Was Then... This Is Now

“Life as a teenager isn't always easy.”

Bryon Douglas (Craig Sheffer) has one real attachment, and it is to Mark Jennings (Emilio Estevez), the older boy who has been like a brother to him. When Mark starts spending his time with a new girlfriend, Cathy Carlson (Kim Delaney), Bryon feels pushed out and drifts toward drugs and the police. Christopher Cain adapts S. E. Hinton's novel as a story about how friendships built in childhood are not guaranteed to survive growing up.