The Wanderers

For a movie to be entertaining there has to be catchy dialogue, developed characters, and thought-provoking issues. I should not only come out of the movie having been entertained, but thinking about the context of the story. Many of today’s movies like American Pie take complex life changing situations and sugar coat them into nothing more than a slight passing discomfort. The Wanderers, directed by Philip Kaufman, deals with many thought-provoking, life changing issues. It deals with gang violence, abusive parents, alcoholism, and teen pregnancy among many others. It causes the audience to think and not just sit there like a zombie.
The Wanderers is set in Brooklyn in the early sixties when the nation as a whole went through major changes in the way we see the world. We were no longer an untouchable nation who could not be hurt. The movie is about a group of boys in a street gang who go through the trials and tribulations of transitioning from adolescents to adulthood ...