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''[[The Wanderers]]'' is a 1979 movie that centers on the members of a Bronx youth gang, and their interactions with the other local gangs. At school, a high school teacher accidentally sparks a race riot between the Italian gang the Wanderers and the Black gang the Del-Bombers. Looking to gather allies to their fight as the Del-Bombers have bigger numbers, The Wanderers get rejected (humiliatingly) by the Fordham Baldies and by the Chinese Wongs. But they do get a new member with the arrival of bulky [[The Stoic|Perry]], a newcomer to the neighborhood who proves himself in a fight. Just as it looks bleak for the gang, the local mafia hoods led by 'Chubby' Galasso intervene and negotiate to have the rumble changed into a football match.
Based on a book by Richard Price.
Not to be confused with ''[[El-Hazard: The Magnificent World|El-Hazard: The Wanderers]]''.
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* [[Adaptation Distillation]]: Price's novel is episodic in nature. Director Philip Kaufman and his wife Rose re-wove the narrative into a more coherent plot.
* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: Turkey. And Perry and Joey.
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* [[Cult Classic]]
* [[Dirty Coward]]: The Wanderers and Del-Bombers who split before the fight with the Ducky Boys. Averted by members of the Wongs, who join in with the remaining Wanderers and Del-Bombers even when it wasn't their fight.
* [[Dueling Movies]]: With ''[[The Warriors (
* [[End of an Age]]
* [[For the Evulz]]: The Ducky Boys.
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** The gang fight between the Wanderers and Del-Bombers get taken over by both the Italian and Black mafias and turned into a football match that the mobsters could bet over.
** At the end of the movie, it's obvious that Richie is getting too old to be with the Wanderers and will promote upward into his father-in-law's gang.
* [[The Sixties]]: The movie takes place in 1963, as the culture of [[The Fifties]] gives way to this one. {{spoiler|Towards the end of the film, [[John F. Kennedy]] is assassinated, the Baldies all drunkenly signed up for [[Vietnam War|Vietnam]], and Richie watches as the proto-hippie girl he liked leave him to go watch some new folk singer named [[Bob Dylan]] perform. The movie itself ends with Joey and Perry fleeing for California in the footsteps of Joey's favorite author [[Jack Kerouac]].}}
* [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]]: The football game devolving into a [[Battle Royale]] between the Ducky Boys and the Wanderer/Del Bomber/Wong team-up foreshadows the violent confusion of the [[Vietnam War]]. Topped by {{spoiler|Joey's violent father joining in the battle and attacking his own son in the confusion.}}
* [[White Gang-Bangers]]
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[[Category:Films of the 1970s]]
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