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.’
Direction
Kaufman stages chaos like a drunken ballet—messy, beautiful, alive.
Sound
Soundtrack so good you'll Shazam songs from 1963.
Acting
Karen Allen arrives like a thunderclap in a boys-only sandbox.
Director
Philip Kaufman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Richard Price wrote the novel at 24, drawing from his own Bronx gang experiences. The Ducky Boys were real.
The film bombed in 1979 but became a cult phenomenon on cable and college campuses, especially ironic given its nostalgia for a 'simpler' violent past.
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