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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Cast

Robby Benson

Emilio Mendez

Sarah Holcomb

Sarah Lassiter

Henry Darrow

Mike Serrano

Pepe Serna

Cesar

Trinidad Silva

Dagger

Ji-Tu Cumbuka

Sgt. Gannett

Lawrence Pressman

Henry Lassiter

Domingo Ambriz

Cowboy

Brad Sullivan

Jerry Kelsey

Irene DeBari

Mrs. Mendez

Panchito Gómez

Manuel