Colors (film)

Colors
Original film poster
Directed by	Dennis Hopper
Screenplay by	Michael Schiffer
Story by	Richard Di Lello Michael Schiffer
Produced by	Robert H. Solo
Starring	Sean Penn Robert Duvall María Conchita Alonso
Cinematography	Haskell Wexler
Edited by	Robert Estrin
Music by	Herbie Hancock
Distributed by	Orion Pictures
Release date	April 15, 1988 (1988-04-15)
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.