Emilio Mendez is a 17-year-old Chicano man in California comes to realize that the gang life is not what he really wants but doesn't know how to get out. Robby Benson plays a young gang member in Los Angeles who begins to question himself when Mendez meets and starts to fall for a White girl who encourages him to try and leave. Emilio, with great pride in his Native Mexican heritage, suffers a further identity crisis upon meeting his father, a European-American who got his Brown mother pregnant when she was just 16.
Walk Proud has generally received positive reviews.
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Review of Walk Proud (1979)
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Walk Proud was released in 1979 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 3 reviews, giving Walk Proud (1979) an average rating of 69%.
Overall, cinema-goers prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 90%, compared to film critics, who gave it a lower average score of 70%. Amateur reviewers were more impressed with Walk Proud than critics were.
With a score of 69%, Walk Proud is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1979, which stands at 60%.
Other movies from 1979 with similar scores include films like Mad Max, Phantasm and Rock 'n' Roll High School.
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