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Colors (1988)
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Robert Duvall plays a veteran street cop assigned to a Los Angeles gang unit. He takes a headstrong young cop (Sean Penn) under his wing as a partner and shows him the ropes on Watts's mean streets. Penn soon realizes that his testosterone-fueled ways and hair-trigger temper won't get him very far when dealing with the gang-ridden neighborhoods of L.A. Colors is a landmark movie in several respects: it helped bring director Dennis Hopper back into the spotlight after years of self-induced obscurity. Its success at the box office forced Los Angeles's gang problems into the public consciousness and prefigured the next wave of "hood"...
| Release Date: | April 15th, 1988 |
| Running Time: | 120 minutes |
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$46,616,067 (US)
$0 (World) |
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| Colors Movie Review by Richard (6/19/2007) |
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LA in the mid 1980s was thought of as a disintegrating hell hole of Cocaine fueled rage and smog infested ganglands. Ice T was the precursor to all of the Gangsta Rap explosion that was soon to come, and Dennis Hopper jumped on the opportunity to tell a story of how cops are embroiled in this battle that happens on the...
(complete Colors review by Richard)
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