Storyline
Emilio Mendez is a 17-year-old Chicano in California comes to realize that the gang life is not what he really wants but doesn't know how to get out. Robby Benson plays a young gang member in Los Angeles who begins to question himself when Mendez meets and starts to fall for a White girl who encourages him to try and leave. Emilio, with great pride in his Native Mexican heritage, suffers a further identity crisis upon meeting his father, a European-American who got his Brown mother pregnant when she was just 16.
Released
15 June 1979
Runtime
1h 42min
Director
Genre
Status
Released
Language
English
Production
Universal Pictures
Cast
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