(Walk Proud)

Content: 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.

Countries:

United States of America

Genres:

Drama,

Romance

Runtime:

102 minutes

Year:

1979

Directors:

Robert L. Collins

Production companies:

Universal Pictures

Actors:

Emilio Mendez

Sarah Lassiter

Mike Serrano

Cesar

Dagger

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