Film

The Wanderers 1979

Directed by Philip Kaufman

  • Drama
  • 117 min
  • R

It was The Wanderers against the world ... and the world never had a chance!

The streets of the Bronx are owned by '60s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is lived. Philip Kaufman tells his take on the novel by Richard Price about the history of the Italian-American gang ‘The Wanderers.’

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Classical in form, nostalgic, effortless and resolved.

  • classical in formformally daring
  • contemporarynostalgic
  • effortlessdemanding
  • resolvedopen-ended
  • earnestironic

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