Released Date:
1992-03-13
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
125 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (5424 Reviews)
Director:
Edward James OlmosFloyd Mutrux (story)
Floyd Mutrux (screenplay)
Desmond Nakano (screenplay)
This epic depiction of thirty years of Chicano gang life in Los Angeles focuses on a teen named Santana who, with his friends Mundo and the Caucasian-but-acting-Hispanic J.D., form their own gang and are soon arrested for a break-in. Santana gets into trouble again and goes straight from reform school to prison, spending eighteen year there, and becoming leader of a powerful gang, both inside and outside the prison, while there. When he is finally released, he tries to make sense of the violence in his life, in a world much changed from when last he was in it.
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