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In Alambrista!, a farmworker sneaks across the border from Mexico into California in an effort to make money to send to his family back home. It is a story that happens every day, told here in an uncompromising, groundbreaking work of realism from American independent filmmaker Robert M. Young (Dominick and Eugene). Vivid and spare where other films about illegal immigration might sentimentalize, Young's take on the subject is equal parts intimate character study and gripping road movie, a political work that never loses sight of the complex man at its center. Alambrista!, winner of the Cannes Film Festival s inaugural Camera d'Or in 1978, remains one of the best films ever made on this perennially relevant topic.

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Robby Benson (Ice Castles, The Chosen) stars as Emilio, a wrong-side-of-the-tracks Chicano kid who runs with Los Aztecas, an L.A. street gang. After experiencing this world of brutality and power plays for some time, he yearns for a way out, and with the help of his girlfriend (Sarah Holcomb, Animal House, Caddyshack) decides to start a new life. From acclaimed writer Evan Hunter (The Blackboard Jungle, The Birds) and veteran TV director Robert L. Collins (Police Story, Gideon’s Trumpet), Walk Proud is a riveting gang-life drama in the vein of The Warriors and The Wanderers. Co-starring Henry Darrow (The Hitcher), Pepe Serna (Scarface) and Trinidad Silva (Colors). Special Features: -Brand New 2K Master -NEW Interview with Actor Pepe Serna -NEW Interview with Actress Irene DeBari -NEW Interview with Actor Panchito Gómez -NEW Interview with Actor Luis Reyes -Theatrical Trailer -Optional English Subtitles Top Similar From the Brand Reviews Walk Proud