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"He was tough enough for the streets... was he tough enough to leave them?"

Emilio Mendez is a 17-year-old Chicano man 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.

Top Cast

  • Robby Benson

    Robby Benson

    Emilio Mendez

  • Sarah Holcomb

    Sarah Holcomb

    Sarah Lassiter

  • Henry Darrow

    Henry Darrow

    Mike Serrano

  • Pepe Serna

    Pepe Serna

    Cesar

  • Trinidad Silva

    Trinidad Silva

    Dagger

  • Ji-Tu Cumbuka

    Ji-Tu Cumbuka

    Sgt. Gannett

  • Lawrence Pressman

    Lawrence Pressman

    Henry Lassiter

  • Domingo Ambriz

    Domingo Ambriz

    Cowboy

  • Brad Sullivan

    Brad Sullivan

    Jerry Kelsey

Overview

Emilio Mendez is a 17-year-old Chicano man 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.

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