Walk Proud

1979 1h 42m ★5.4

Walk Proud

“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.

Release Date June 15, 1979
Runtime 1h 42m
Language English
Director Robert L. Collins
Category Drama, Romance
Rating 5.4 / 10 (TMDb)
Year 1979
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