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Release Date:
15 April 1988 (USA)
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70,000 gang members. One million guns. Two cops. more
Plot:
An experienced cop and his rookie partner patrol the streets of East Los Angeles while trying to keep the gang violence under control. full summary | full synopsis
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Awards:
1 win
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Sean Penn | ... | Officer Danny McGavin |
 | Robert Duvall | ... | Officer Bob Hodges |
 | Maria Conchita Alonso | ... | Louisa Gomez |
 | Randy Brooks | ... | Ron Delaney |
| Grand L. Bush | ... | Larry Sylvester (as Grand Bush) |
 | Don Cheadle | ... | Rocket |
| Gerardo Mejía | ... | Bird |
 | Glenn Plummer | ... | Clarence 'High Top' Brown |
 | Rudy Ramos | ... | Melindez |
 | Sy Richardson | ... | O.S.S. Sgt. Bailey |
| Trinidad Silva | ... | Leo 'Frog' Lopez |
| Charles Walker | ... | Reed |
 | Damon Wayans | ... | T-Bone |
| Fred Asparagus | ... | Cook |
 | Sherman Augustus | ... | Officer Porter |
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Runtime:
120 min
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Color (Metrocolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Norway:18 |
Iceland:16 |
Finland:K-16 (cut) (1989) |
Finland:K-16 (uncut) (1996) |
Finland:K-18 (uncut) (1988) |
Canada:13+ (Quebec) |
South Korea:18 |
Australia:R |
France:-12 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:18 |
USA:R |
West Germany:16 |
Canada:R (Ontario)
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The original script by Richard Di Lello took place in Chicago and was more about drug dealing than gang members. Dennis Hopper ordered changes, so Michael Schiffer was hired and the setting was changed to Los Angeles and the focus of the story became more about the world of gang members.
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Crew or equipment visible: The shadow of the camera mount can be seen on Hodges' car during the car chase scene.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Resident Alien (1990)
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Soundtrack:
SQUEEZE THE TRIGGER
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My generation remembers these times...This is before Rodney King and the riots, before the relentless moralizing of Spike Lee and John Singleton. Back then, urban gang warfare was comfortably distant. This is before cell phones, bling, rims, before the thug life became a marketable commodity.
Colors is distinctive for Hopper's tight focus, his honest approach and complete lack of sentimentality. The world depicted here is horizontal, and filmed horizontally; it is ugly and unironic, and in a way egalitarian; there are NO courts or lawyers, every introduction of ethics is literally shot down.
It's hard to imagine anything being made like this in today's multiculti/PC world, any such attempt would immediately provoke shrieking and clutching of skirts at the sight of 'racism'.
This paradigm of movie-making didn't survive, it disappeared like Duvall's soul in that departing helicopter shot. Unfortunately, the trend went the way of "Boyz n the Hood".