The Wanderers

Set in the Bronx in 1963, The Wanderers follows a group of Italian-American teenagers who run a street gang of the same name. Led by Richie, the gang navigates rivalries with other crews, tensions with the people around them, and the everyday pressures of school, romance and growing up. A new arrival named Perry steps in during a fight with a rival gang, while a football game against the Bombers deepens the friction between the Wanderers and their opponents. A confrontation with a feared gang adds a darker edge to their world.

Philip Kaufman directed the film and wrote the screenplay with Rose Kaufman, working from Richard Price's novel. Martin Ransohoff produced. The cast includes Ken Wahl as Richie, John Friedrich as Joey, Karen Allen as Nina, Toni Kalem as Despie Galasso and Alan Rosenberg as Turkey. It arrived between Kaufman's Invasion of the Body Snatchers, released in 1978, and The Right Stuff, released in 1983, as the third of the ten films he directed in the listed order.

The film has an IMDb rating of 7.3 from around 13,000 votes and a TMDB rating of 6.9 from 233 votes, indicating a solid reputation among viewers on the larger platform and a somewhat more moderate response on the smaller one.