Walk Proud (1979) — drama, romance film. Directed by Robert L. Collins. Starring Robby Benson, Sarah Holcomb, Henry Darrow, Pepe Serna.
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A Chicano teenager navigates gang life, romance, and a profound identity crisis upon discovering his mixed heritage.
Drama, Romance · 5.4/10 · 102 min · 1979
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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