Walk Proud
"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.
About Walk Proud (1979)
Walk Proud (1979) is a drama and romance movie produced by Universal Pictures in United States of America. It was directed by Robert L. Collins and written by Evan Hunter. On screen you will see Robby Benson, Sarah Holcomb, Henry Darrow, Pepe Serna and Trinidad Silva. With a runtime of 1h 42m, the film averages 5.4/10 across 7 TMDB ratings.
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