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James Dean in Rebel Without A Cause (1955)
The ultimate high school outsider, Dean violently clashes with the popular kids.
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Sissy Spacek in Carrie (1976)
As the title character, Spacek is bullied by her fellow students until a special talent emerges.
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Chris Makepeace in My Bodyguard (1980)
In the underrated comedy, Makepeace gets bullied by slick young Matt Dillon, until he hires a bodyguard even more outsider-y than himself.
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Anthony Michael Hall in Sixteen Candles (1984)
Well before he bulked up, Hall played the overconfident geek who pines after Molly Ringwald. Some call him Farmer Ted.
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Ally Sheedy in The Breakfast Club (1985)
The weirdest of a pretty weird bunch, Sheedy plays Allison, the most cast-out of the outcasts.
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Patrick Dempsey in Can’t Buy Me Love (1987)
Before he was McDreamy, Dempsey actually paid a popular girl to date him. Well, not in real life.
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Christian Slater in Pump Up The Volume (1990)
In this silly-ish movie, Slater uses his pirate-radio station as a way to call out the injustices of the high-school system.
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Heather Matarazzo in Welcome To The Dollhouse (1995)
As the horribly named Dawn Wiener, Matarazzo is shunned by her family and her schoolmates, except for one nerd and one bully.
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Jon Heder in Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
If you’re too clueless to know you’re an outsider, are you still an outsider?
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Jacob Wysocki in Terri (2011)
As the title character, Wysocki sadly embraces his outsider status, until John C. Reilly takes him under his wing.
