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.
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Cast
- Robby BensonEmilio Mendez
- Sarah HolcombSarah Lassiter
- Henry DarrowMike Serrano
- Pepe SernaCesar
- Trinidad SilvaDagger
- Ji-Tu CumbukaSgt. Gannett
- Lawrence PressmanHenry Lassiter
- Domingo AmbrizCowboy
- Brad SullivanJerry Kelsey
- Irene DeBariMrs. Mendez
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- Robert L. CollinsDirector
- Evan HunterWriter
- Bobby ByrneDirector of Photography
- Don PeakeOriginal Music Composer
- Robby BensonOriginal Music Composer
- Douglas StewartEditor
- Lawrence TurmanProducer
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