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Walk Proud

Walk Proud

5,4 /10 (7 Votes)
1979 EN 102 min

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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Release date

15/06/1979

Votes

7

Popularity

0.6

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

Genres

Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

102 min

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