Colors | |
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Directed by | Dennis Hopper |
Screenplay by | Michael Schiffer |
Story by | Richard Di Lello Michael Schiffer |
Produced by | Robert H. Solo |
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Cinematography | Haskell Wexler |
Edited by | Robert Estrin |
Music by | Herbie Hancock |
Distributed by | Orion Pictures |
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Running time | 120 min. (original release) 127 min. (Director's Cut) |
Country | United States |
Languages | English Spanish |
Budget | $10 million |
Box office | $46,616,067 (domestic)[1] |
Colors is a 1988 American police procedural action crime film starring Sean Penn and Robert Duvall, and directed by Dennis Hopper. The film takes place in the gang ridden neighborhoods of Los Angeles: late-1980s South Central Los Angeles, Echo Park, Westlake and East Los Angeles. The film centers on Bob Hodges (Duvall), an experienced Los Angeles Police Department C.R.A.S.H. officer, and his rookie partner, Danny McGavin (Penn), who try to stop the gang violence between the Bloods, the Crips, and Hispanic street gangs. Colors relaunched Hopper as a director 19 years after Easy Rider, and inspired discussion over its depiction of gang life and gang violence.