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The movie follows four Brooklyn teenagers known as The Lords of Flatbush. They do everything together, which makes things easier but at the same time they have to face new problems. Stanley has gotten his girlfriend pregnant, and decides to marry her. Chico, on the other hand, gets a royal brush-off from his girlfriend Jane.
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.