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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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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.
Dec 21, 2023 · “The Wanderers” is a classic movie released in 1979, based on a novel by Richard Price, and follows the lives of Italian-American teenagers in the Bronx during the 1960s. It explores themes of friendship, loyalty, and coming of age in a neighborhood filled with rival gangs and social conflicts.
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) falls hard for Nina...
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Aug 26, 2020 · The story is set in The Bronx in 1963, starring a series of young actors who were mostly first-timers and relative unknowns. At its centre is Italian-American kid Richie (Ken Wahl) who is one...
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Sep 3, 2018 · Co-written by Kaufman and his wife Rose, the film stars Ken Wahl, John Friedrich, Karen Allen, Toni Kalem, Jim Youngs, Alan Rosenberg, Dolph Sweet, and Linda Manz, and is set in the Bronx circa 1963, with the action revolving around a gang of Italian-American teens who go by the name the Wanderers, and how they butt heads with rival groups ...
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.’
