Ara Thorpe in Colors (1988)

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The rival Bloods and Crips gangs from Los Angeles’s South Central battlefields designate themselves by flaunting opposing blue or red bandanas, but the cops who police them are a monochromatic lot, bleeding only in blue. Such are the hues that clash to create the shoot-’em-up conflict of Colors (1988). A buddy-cop action flick with a social conscience, as conceived by multi-talented director Dennis Hopper and starring Academy Award winners Robert Duvall and Sean Penn, Colors keeps it real with a huge supporting cast made up of some of the baddest brothers on the streets. And like any man in blue worthy of his shield, Penn takes time out from cracking brown-skinned skulls to loll in the embrace of his hot Latina love interest.