The Wanderers

The Wanderers

It was The Wanderers against the world ... and the world never had a chance!

R 1979 · 117 min · ★ 6.9 · Drama

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.’

Directed by Philip Kaufman · Written by Philip Kaufman

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