The Wanderers
“It was The Wanderers against the world ... and the world never had a chance!”
The streets of the Bronx are owned by '60s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is lived. Philip Kaufman tells his take on the novel by Richard Price about the history of the Italian-American gang ‘The Wanderers.’
Genres
Drama
Studio
Orion Pictures
Language
en
Status
Released
How The Wanderers performed
Budget
N/A
Worldwide Gross
$23.0M
Gross Profit
N/A
Return
N/A
Opening Wknd (est.)
$3M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~48/52, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (30% of the domestic run, typical for Drama) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Richie
Ken Wahl
Richie
Joey
John Friedrich
Joey
Nina
Karen Allen
Nina
Despie Galasso
Toni Kalem
Despie Galasso
Turkey
Alan Rosenberg
Turkey
Buddy
Jim Youngs
Buddy
Perry
Tony Ganios
Perry
Peewee
Linda Manz
Peewee
Emilio
William Andrews
Emilio
Terror
Erland van Lidth
Terror
Mr. Sharp
Val Avery
Mr. Sharp
Chubby Galasso
Dolph Sweet
Chubby Galasso
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