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Walk Proud

1979 · 102 min

A earnest, conflicted coming-of-age drama about a young man torn between loyalty and a way out.

Genres
Drama, Romance
Tagline
He was tough enough for the streets... was he tough enough to leave them?
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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    engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • identity
    • coming-of-age
    • family
    • love
    • race
    Places
    • big city
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
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    None
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence mild
    • Sex mild
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    Action3
    Horror1
    Humour2
    Realism7
    Romance5
    Tension4
    Darkness5
    Complexity4
    Emotional weight6

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