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.
Made in US
5.4/10
1979
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Cast
Robby Benson
As Emilio Mendez
Sarah Holcomb
As Sarah Lassiter
Henry Darrow
As Mike Serrano
Pepe Serna
As Cesar
Trinidad Silva
As Dagger
Ji-Tu Cumbuka
As Sgt. Gannett
Lawrence Pressman
As Henry Lassiter
Domingo Ambriz
As Cowboy
Brad Sullivan
As Jerry Kelsey
Irene DeBari
As Mrs. Mendez
Panchito Gómez
As Manuel
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