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.
Top Cast
Robby Benson as Emilio Mendez
Sarah Holcomb as Sarah Lassiter
Henry Darrow as Mike Serrano
Pepe Serna as Cesar
Trinidad Silva as Dagger
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