The Wanderers

Name: The Wanderers
Genre: Drama
Released: July 4, 1979
Duration: 112 min
Rating: 64
Cast: Alan Rosenberg, Erland van Lidth, Jim Youngs, John Friedrich, Karen Allen

1979

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Adams Filmi | Release Date: July 4, 1979 | R

Starring: Alan Rosenberg, Erland van Lidth, Jim Youngs, John Friedrich, Karen Allen, Ken Wahl, Linda Manz, Toni Kalem, Tony Ganios, William Andrews

Summary: Set against the urban jungle of 1963 New York's gangland subculture, this coming of age teenage movie is set around the Italian gang the Wanderers. Slight comedy, slight High School angst and every bit entertaining with its classic 1950's Rock n' Roll soundtrack such as "Walk Like a Man", "Big Girls Don't Cry" by The Four Seasons and "MySet against the urban jungle of 1963 New York's gangland subculture, this coming of age teenage movie is set around the Italian gang the Wanderers. Slight comedy, slight High School angst and every bit entertaining with its classic 1950's Rock n' Roll soundtrack such as "Walk Like a Man", "Big Girls Don't Cry" by The Four Seasons and "My Boyfriend's Back" by The Angels. Focusing around a football game where the different gangs play with and against each other, then at its grand finale, come together in a mass of union to defend their honour and their turf. Nostalgic stuff and above all a Rock n' Roll retrospective on a grand musical era. Timeless.… Expand

Director: Philip Kaufman

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: R

Runtime: 112 min

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The film survives cuts to deliver some great, gross, comic book capers. And rock history gets its most intelligent illustration since Mean Streets. Read full review

Jack Kroll

Price's vision was realistic and romantic at the same time, the violence painful but also sensual, the mood charged with a sweet hopelessness. Philip Kaufman's tough but tender film emphasizes this double vision. It's like Grease with brass knuckles. [16 July 1979, p.93]

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

All in all a fascinating film with an outstanding musical score consisting of jukebox hits from the period. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

Despite an uneasy blend of nostalgia and violence, The Wanderers is a well-made and impressive film. Philip Kaufman, who also co-scripted with his wife, Rose [from the novel by Richard Price], has accurately captured the urban angst of growing up in the 1960s. Read full review

Michael Sragow

What revs up the movie and keeps it humming is the driving energy of early rock, with its innocent/rebellious spirit, and its theme that teens must find their own ways to love and fight. Read full review

Empire William Thomas

Worth a look, if only for the surreal groupings of the gangs (The Wongs, the Del Bombers and the Fordham Baldies...that's right, they're bald). Read full review

Frank Rich

By grafting stylistic affectations onto an otherwise naturalistic movie, Kaufman blunts the raw power that, is The Wanderers' greatest asset. Like his characters, he would have fared far better if he had stopped showing off and practiced a little self-control. Read full review

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