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Synopsis: 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 "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.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Philip Kaufman
Production: Warner Home Video
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.4
Rotten Tomatoes:
89%
R
Year:
1979
112 min
$14,492
1,089 Views


You even goofed up my handwriting.

Thanks, you're my main man.

Hey, Richie?

Turkey, take your hat off and get your feet

off the desk. It smells bad enough.

Very funny, Mr. Sharp.

I said, '"take your hat off! '"

Come on, take it off.

What's the matter?

You guys never seen a Baldie before?

Mr. Sharp, did you see

what Turkey just did?

Shut up, stupid!

Are you gonna make me, motherf***er?

Let's go.

All right, settle down.

You've both got detention.

Mr. Sharp, man. Damn.

Mr. Sharp...

Them white boys here,

they's getting obstreperous.

Anybody know what week this is?

- Brotherhood Week.

- Very good, Stitch.

Now, who wrote this?

You did.

'"A. Lincoln.'"

'"Race, creed, color.'"

I wanna see how many different races

we have just here in this classroom.

All Jewish people, stand up.

Okay. All the Italians.

All right! Okay. Settle down.

All Colored.

What's the matter, Stitch?

Don't we have a group to suit you?

No, I'm an Eskimo.

Where can I get some Eskimo pie?

Okay.

Colored. Italian.

Or is it Colored and Eye-talian?

Is that the way your old man talks?

The Colored.

How about you guys?

What do you say after school, Eye-talian?

Let's talk some straight talk.

Let's call a spade a spade.

Let's talk straight. Give me some names.

Come on.

N*gger.

Grease ball.

- Yeah.

- That's right.

Jungle bunny.

Swamp Guinea.

Handkerchief head.

Mountain wop.

Bogey.

Guinea.

Coon!

Dago.

Watch you mouth, boo-boo.

Spear-chucker!

Motherf***er, I'm gonna chuck a spear

up your ass!

Hold it! I can't write that fast.

Is that it? That's all?

We ran out of names pretty fast.

What did we learn here today?

Mr. Sharp, the white boys forgot

a couple of names.

They forgot spade...

...spooks and jigs.

Put that on the board.

How did you guys forget those names?

There must have been

a mental lapse, Mr. Sharp.

Mr. Sharp, I think it's because...

...they are a bunch of dumb-ass,

grease ball, Guinea, wop...

You black bastard.

F*** you, dago motherf***er!

- Jigaboo!

- Your mama.

- You ain't got one.

- What'd you say?

F*** you!

Hold it!

Hold it.

We'll meet you at Prince Charles' Field,

okay? Saturday.

You got it. Saturday at noon.

No guns and no knives.

I want everybody after school, everybody.

F***in' hang that little bastard.

That's the only way you're going to learn

about brotherhood!

What's the matter with you guys?

Haven't you heard '"sticks and stones

will break my bones...

'"...but names will never hurt me'"?

Come on, motherf***er!

All you motherfuckers!

Get down there!

What's the matter with you animals?

Any homework?

We don't want to get into this.

I know the neighborhood's changed,

but are you guys chickenshit?

- You guys started it.

- We didn't start it.

- We heard you did.

- You heard wrong.

- What else?

- We ain't Italian.

I know you ain't Italian.

Come on, what do you say?

We say good luck to you.

Yeah, good luck, faggots.

Motherfucking faggots.

Come back here.

We're with you. No n*gger will face this.

What are you doing?

We don't need those. Put it away.

You kidding me?

Those guys will show up with pieces.

Don't trust them.

You got to go for them first.

- He got a point, Richie.

- Me and Clinton agreed.

- No guns or knives.

- You gonna trust that n*gger?

You don't know where you're living.

We ain't going with you without these.

Then you ain't going with us.

Nice knowing you guys.

Have fun.

F***ing pussies.

I don't know, man.

Come on.

Look, Richie, call my friends, the Baldies.

Those guys like me.

Call them, I think they'll come in with us.

With them in, it's all over.

Listen, I ain't calling those guys.

I got my pride.

Sometimes all you got is pride.

Got to hold your head up high.

I seen this movie once

where this guy was tortured by the Japs...

...but he wouldn't give them

any information.

Every time they tortured him...

...he started singing

the Star-Spangled Banner.

Wow. What happened?

- They killed him.

- Shut up, you're depressing me.

What was that?

You got the jitters.

I'm going to take a whiz.

I thought I heard something.

You guys hear anything?

Baldies got guys, too.

It's the Wongs!

Teddy Wong. How you doing?

- I thought you was coming earlier.

- We did, man.

We waited until now

to make ourselves known.

You've just been hanging out

in the bushes?

- Pretty spooky.

- We've been listening.

I called you Wongs here tonight

for a reason.

- We know your reason.

- Gonna join us?

No.

- You're gonna join them?

- Stay back!

Don't f*** with the Wongs.

The Wongs never joined with anybody...

...yet.

What do you mean by '"yet'"?

We'll decide what's right

when the time comes.

The Wongs will wait and see.

When what time comes?

What do they mean?

- Where did they go?

- I don't know.

Get back here!

No, get the f*** out of here,

you Chink a**holes.

No sweat, they can't hear me.

Don't f*** with the Wongs!

Richie, listen to what I just heard.

It ain't just the Del Bombers, man.

They're bringing in the Pips, the Cavaliers...

...the Mau Mau's.

- Sh*t, we've got a f***ing race war.

Maybe we'll bring in some guys

from Brooklyn, the Golden Guineas.

One thing:
We got to stay cool.

Did you notice those spades got

two million cousins all over the country?

We need help,

and I'm calling my friends in, the Baldies.

Enough, man. Forget it.

Guess who.

Al Capone.

No.

- It's me.

- What do you know.

What are you doing, Richie?

What's that list?

- You're gonna rumble?

- No, it's just some business.

I'll talk to you later, all right?

I thought we were

gonna buy some records.

Maybe a little later, all right?

Love you, baby.

Love you, too.

Richie, my daddy wants to see you.

How you doing?

I heard Chubby was looking for me.

Over there.

Over here, Richie.

- You wanna see me, Mr. Galasso?

- Yeah.

Me and my brothers

wanted to see you because...

...we heard you got some trouble

with the Colored.

How did you hear about that?

How did we hear about that?

How do the Galasso brothers hear

about anything in this neighborhood?

The reason I'm asking is that...

...maybe you could use some help.

No, we can handle it.

Remember, Richie, in this day and age,

in this neighborhood...

...there's lot of ways to skin the cat.

Do you know what I mean?

- Not exactly.

- Think about it.

You know where to find us.

You guys wanted Joey to come

so he could heal old wounds.

I respect these guys.

Give them a good rumble, they're happy.

Look what's coming.

Look what the cat dragged in.

Hey, my favorite Wanderer.

You know, Joey,

if I had a dog with a face like yours...

...l'd shave its ass

and teach it to walk backwards.

Very funny, Terror. Very funny.

We've come to you because

we've got problems with the n*ggers.

You guys know Roger, don't you?

What do you mothers want?

We've got some personal business here.

You guys go to Tulley High, don't you?

Maybe you know a cousin of mine.

Clinton Stitch? He's in the Del Bombers.

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Rose Kaufman

Rose Kaufman (née Fisher; March 30, 1939 – December 7, 2009) was an American screenwriter who co-wrote the screenplays of The Wanderers (1979) and Henry & June (1990) with her husband, writer-director Philip Kaufman. more…

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