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70,000 gang members. One million guns. Two cops.
Colors
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  • Rated: R
  • Closed captioning available
  • Run Time: 2 hours
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: October 2, 2001
  • Originally Released: 1988
  • Label: Mgm (Video & Dvd)

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 28,426
Dennis Hopper's striking, controversial film was one of the first to attempt to get under the skin of LA gang culture, inspiring the many 'hood' films that proliferated in the early 1990s. Full Review
Film4
Apr 30, 2010
Rating: 2/4 -- Penn and Duvall are two of our greatest actors, but here they're posturing rather than performing, aware that they're in an Important Film. Full Review
Creative Loafing
Mar 18, 2017
...COLORS is a solidly crafted depiction of some current big-city horrors....Excellent work from director Dennis Hopper...
Variety
Apr 13, 1988
...Fierce, rollicking....Nothing about COLORS is ordinary...
New York Times
Apr 15, 1988
Rating: 3.5/4 -- Though its story has the makings of standard stuff, and is sometimes sketchily told, nothing about 'Colors is ordinary.
New York Times
May 20, 2003
Sean Penn and Robert Duvall play a mismatched team of cops on a special anti-gang task force on the Los Angeles Police Department. Their characters' growth makes this movie much more than a sensational look at street gangs, which it most certainly is. Full Review
United Press International
Dec 8, 2017
..This terse, violent LA cop story reek[s] of street cred... -- Rating; B
Entertainment Weekly
Aug 5, 1994

Product Description:

After the events of the previous decade in Los Angeles, this 1988 film about L.A. street gangs as seen through the eyes of the LAPD represented a serious effort to throw some light on the appalling carnage of that world in which, for example, 400 gangbangers were killed in 1987, the year the film was in production. It stars Robert Duvall as Mike Hodges and Sean Penn as Danny McGavin, veteran/rookie cop partners attached to CRASH, the LAPD's gang-supression unit. Hodges has been working South Central for years and has the gangbangers' respect for his low-key, quid pro quo demeanor. Despite his partner's admonitions, McGavin wants to play Rambo, bringing the hammer down on gang members at every opportunity. Ultimately the rage that drives the younger man destroys his relationship with his girlfriend, Louisa Gomez (Maria Conchita Alonso), and raises questions as to whether he should even be allowed to wear a badge. While considerable attention is paid to the complicated rubrics of gang culture, the gangbangers remain shadowy, nearly anonymous figures, especially compared to later portrayals. COLORS is a solid film, featuring superb performances by Penn and Duvall, excellent photography by Haskell Wexler, and a killer soundtrack.

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  • Sales Rank: 6,929
  • UPC: 027616867711
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