Driving by their deep will of acquiring wealth, a group of teenagers, who compose a gang that steal shops, cars, and makes terrible, but together, they manage to overcome all the obstacles they face, except those for girls, as Stanley struggles against marrying his girlfriend who becomes a pregnant.
The film is a character piece that wanders from place to place with no single impetus, although one gets the feeling that this technique is intentional.
Like first love, this study of the growing pains of the leather jacket-bobby soxer Brooklyn high school set of 1957 is, by turns, cheerful, confused, juvenile and never fully realized.
The movie is adept at portraying aimlessness, getting at the greasy anomie that was so much a part of that time. But there is a lack of ambition, as if no one involved in creating the film wanted to cut deeper than a little double-edged nostalgia.
