The Warriors
1979 · TMDB 7.7
Directed by Walter Hill
Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city. At the meeting, a rival leader kills Cyrus, but a Coney Island gang called the Warriors is wrongly blamed for Cyrus' death. Before you know it, the cops and every gangbanger in town is hot on the Warriors' trail.
Why it matters
Walter Hill’s sleek urban thriller strips Homer’s epic down to its most visceral element: the desperate, instinctual fight to get back home. Falsely accused of assassinating a visionary leader, a framed Coney Island crew must navigate thirty miles of hostile street turf to reach...
- Runtime
- 94 min
- Released
- 1979-02-01
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures
- Country
- United States of America
- Language
- English
- TMDB score
- 7.7
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