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The Wanderers is a 1979 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film co-written and directed by Philip Kaufman and starring Ken Wahl, John Friedrich, Karen Allen, Toni Kalem, Tony Ganios and Jim Youngs. Set in the Bronx in 1963, the film follows a gang of Italian-American teenagers known as the Wanderers and their ongoing power struggles with rival ...
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Synopsis. Set in the Bronx, New York City in the year 1963, the film opens with Richie (Ken Wahl), the leader of an Italian-American street gang called 'The Wanderers' persuades his girlfriend Despie (Toni Kalem) to go "all the way" as a World War II Hollywood war movie plays on a TV set. They have sex for the first time.
Leader Richie Gennaro (Ken Wahl) finds himself entangled with Despie Galasso (Toni Kalem), the daughter of a mobster, while the artistically inclined Joey (John Friedrich)...
- Comedy, Drama
Aug 13, 2014 · Subscribe to Exclusive Media for all the latest trailers and movie clips http://bit.ly/1m2iRIl Set against the urban jungle of 1963 New York's gangland subculture, this coming of age teenage...
Aug 26, 2020 · Released in 1979, The Wanderers is a lesser-known teen movie that deserves to be a classic, writes Christina Newland. You know the sort of film, don’t you? Imbued with nostalgia, full of...
The Wanderers are a teenage gang who are growing up and coming to terms with life in the city. 5,865 IMDb 7.3 1 h 57 min 1979. X-Ray R. Drama · Comedy · Gritty · Joyous.
The Wanderers. 1979 · 1 hr 58 min. R. Drama · Crime. Follows the exploits of the eponymous Italian-American teenage gang in the Bronx in 1963, just before the country underwent profound change.
Adapted from Richard Price's novel, THE WANDERERS is a coming-of-age story about five members of an Italian-American street gang in the Bronx in 1963. A soundtrack of classic doo-wop establishes the time and place, but it's a time that is about to change, and a place that is about to disappear....
Directed by Phillip Kaufman, this adaptation of Richard Price's novel stands up as one of the best pictures to deal with gang culture. Laced with crackling adolescent humour, and sublimely sound tracked, The Wanderers triumphs better than most because it c... read the rest.
