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Colors
Directed by
Dennis Hopper
R
1988
2h
Drama
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6.7
75%
71%
6.5
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A confident young cop is shown the ropes by a veteran partner in the dangerous gang-controlled barrios of L.A. about to explode in violence in this look at the gang culture enforced by the colors that members wear.
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Cast of Colors
Sean Penn
Danny McGavin
Robert Duvall
Bob Hodges
María Conchita Alonso
Louisa Gomez
Randy Brooks
Ron Delaney
Grand L. Bush
Larry Sylvester
Don Cheadle
Rocket
Gerardo Mejía
Bird
Glenn Plummer
High Top
Rudy Ramos
Melindez
Sy Richardson
Bailey
Trinidad Silva
Frog
Charles Walker
Reed
Damon Wayans
T-Bone
Fred Asparagus
Cook
Sherman Augustus
Officer Porter
Bruce Beatty
Spanky
Paula Bellamy
Woman in Recreation Center
Brandon Bluhm
Tommie Hodges
Mark Booker
Young Crip #1
Ron Boyd
Cop at Sharon's
Colors Ratings & Reviews
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joe Pollack
I expected more from Hopper as a director, at least something different from the tried-and-true formula pictures.
NPR's Fresh Air
Michael Sragow
The depiction of gangs in Colors doesn't go deep enough to arouse any passions. The movie makers are more interested in the cops, and they seem to think that we are too.
IONCINEMA.com
Nicholas Bell
Colors remains most potent as a portrait of futility regarding a broken law enforcement system which tends to warp those who desire to make a difference into callous, sometimes inhumane harbingers of violence.
United Press International
Cathy Burke
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.
Under the Radar
Austin Trunick
While Colors' down-to-earth, dual portrayal of police work and criminal dealings has since been outdone by The Wire and the entertainment it consequently inspired, there's no doubt fans of any of those shows will be more than satisfied by this film.
TV Guide
Colors has a tentative, ambivalent feel to it--as if Hopper merely considered himself a hired gun who should avoid imposing too personal a vision on the material.
Variety
Variety Staff
Colors is a solidly crafted depiction of some current big-city horrors and succeeds largely because of the Robert Duvall-Sean Penn teaming as frontline cops. They're terrific together as members of the gang crime division of the LAPD.
Apollo Guide
Jon Lap
What is there to write about a lacklustre gang-related film that wants to be more than it amounts to?
New York Times
Janet Maslin
Though its story has the makings of standard stuff, and is sometimes sketchily told, nothing about 'Colors is ordinary.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Colors is a special movie -- not just a police thriller, but a movie that has researched gangs and given some thought to what it wants to say about them.
Washington Post
Hal Hinson
There's great pleasure in watching these two actors work. And Hopper, a great actor himself, knows what they need to thrive.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
It's an exhilarating sparring match between Duvall's workmanlike fine-tuning and Penn's raw energy.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
This lengthy digression helps to account for my anger when media hype tells me that I'm supposed to regard Colors as Hopper's first significant movie since Easy Rider...
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