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.
Robert L. Collins
Director
Evan Hunter
Writer
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
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