The Wanderers
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Movie Reviews of The Wanderers
Movie Review: great movie, awesome soundtrack
Summary: 5 Stars
The Wanderers is cult classic film about teenagers growing up in a gang New York.
The Wanderers are an all Italian gang, who live in the same area. Other gangs include the Dell-Bombers (all black gang), the Wongs (all Chinese gang), the Baldies (tough bald head gang) and the Ducky Boys (Irish gang).
Main Characters include:
Richie, the leader of the Wanderers
Joey, Richie's best friend
Perry, the new kid from New Jersey
Despie, Richie's girl
Terror, leader of the Baldies
Emilio, Joey's father
Nina, the new love interest of Richie, played by Karen Allen (Indiana Jones)
The film revolves around the Wanderers, who get into a scrap with the Baldies. After being cornered, Perry, the new Italian kid from Trenton, New Jersey comes in to help because he hates big kids picking on little kids. He quickly becomes part of the group.
During brotherhood week at school, the Dell Bombers get into it with the Wanderers and agree to a football game for pride. Richie is quickly taught that nothing good comes out of fighting for pride, but instead for money, so wages are placed on the game.
Along the way, Richie falls for Nina who Joey likes, and their friendship becomes strained. Ritchie gets Despie pregnant and now has to marry her while Nina fades away into the new wave era of the late 60's with Bob Dylan.
The Ducky Boys are the toughest and biggest gang around, and they get involved in an all out gang fight against The Wongs, Dell Bombers and Wanderers. After the fight, Perry and Joey leave for California and Richie stays behind to marry Despie, all the meanwhile realizing that times are changing and after graduation.
The movie overall is great, and the soundtrack is awesome. I loved every song.
Movie Review: Highly underated movie, a classic
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a movie that will stay in my mind at least for a long time. The rhythm, the soundtrack, the different aspects of the plot, the photography, every detail was perfect.
You dont have to be a baby boomer or be from the Bronx to like this movie. Im a generation X guy, never lived in the Bronx and this has become to be one of my favorite movies.
The atmosphere of the movie is a blue collar neighborhood, nothing spectacular brights there, but the mentality, romanticism and values of that time represented in this movie, made this look like this as a perfect era. It also made me understand the nostalgy of the baby boomers.
The final scene, (dont read this if you havent seen the movie), where Joey and Perry left New York,in my opinion represents the exodus of the people that lived in the inner city toward the suburbs or the new promising west states. A symbol of this phenomenum was,the traumatic for many, departure of the Brooklyn Dodgers to the new great city in that time, Los Angeles.
There are other parts of the movie that deserves an anthropological and sociological analysis.
This film is a timeless jewel, I think I was lucky the day I saw this on cable for the first time. Before watching this, I never imagined this movie could be that great. And definitively, the box office and the critics never made justice to this film. This was the perfect closer for perhaps the greatest decade of cinema.
Movie Review: Coming of age in a seminal era
Summary: 5 Stars
Music, direction, relationships, friendships, high-school, sex, peers, etc., THE WANDERERS has it all. So when it came to our town in the early 80's, it struck a chord with a few pals for the way it portrayed a group of friends who hung together thru thick and thin while growing up together. We related.
So much so that a frame was clipped from the film and sent to a jacket company on the Left Coast and 18 of us got Wanderers jackets, just like the ones in the film. The day they came in we opened the box outside the theatre, put them on in admiration and went in and saw the film once again. (I've seen it probably 75 times now.) Sometime in the mid-90's we were paid a visit by Rose and Phil Kaufman (Mom and Pop to us), who posed for pictures with the 10 or so Telluride Wanderers still in town.
I must say that the film has held up better than many of the jackets, some threadbare and some stretching to fit older and larger bodies. The film still says what it did when I first saw it, i.e., that friendship is important and can get you thru tough times, that honor is important, and that even though you move on in life, the soundtrack of your younger life can be taken with you as you grow up.
Movie Review: More than meets the eye
Summary: 5 Stars
As with most Phil Kaufman films, there's a lot more going on than meets the eye. Kaufman is after nothing less than the collision of the end of the 50's as it crashes headlong into the 60's. Featuring a cast of unknowns ( at that time ) and a fantastic soundtrack, Kaufman fills The Wanderers with great character performances such as Terror, the 300 pound gang leader, and the Mob guys in XXl-size Hawaiian shirts. Ken Wahl and Karen Allen lead along with a terrific Linda Mans ( Days of Heaven). And because it just wouldn't be a Phil Kaufman film without a metaphysical layer, there is the unexplained presence of the Ducky Boys, whirling dervishes of ultra violence that might not even be real. It's a film that never received the attention it deserved. And who can forget the opening frame as that first chord of "Walk Like A Man" thunders out. Priceless!Movie Review: Biggest hidden gem of all time.
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm not sure if this film was a hidden gem in it's time but it sure as hell is now. Entertainment wise this is one of the best films I've ever seen. I was entertained throughout the whole film with not a moment of boredom. It was really refreshing to see a film like this after spending years of watching Noir and Neo-realist films. The thing that amazed me the most was this films ability to wrap a group of different genre's into one and blend them so graciously. I think the main death of this film was it's showing in PAN AND SCAN over the years. I think it was one of those rare cases of a brilliantly shot film that can only be appreciated in it's true theatrical format. PAN AND SCAN really took away from this film. This film really deserves a hell of a lot more attention and respect.