Boys on the Outside
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| Directed by | Marco Risi |
| Produced by | Claudio Bonivento |
| Written by | Aurelio Grimaldi |
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Francesco Benigno Alessandra Di Sanzo]] Salvatore Termini Alfredo Li Bassi Maurizio Prollo Vincenza Attardo Roberto Mariano |
| Music by | Giancarlo Bigazzi |
| Cinematography | Mauro Marchetti |
| Edited by | Franco Fraticelli |
| Distributed by | Cecchi Gori |
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110 minutes |
| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
Boys on the Outside (Italian: Ragazzi fuori) is a 1990 Italian drama film directed by Marco Risi in the neo-neorealistic style and written by Aurelio Grimaldi. Released in 1990, it is the sequel to the 1989 film Forever Mery. It stars Francesco Benigno, Alessandro Di Sanzo and Salvatore Termini.
Boys on the Outside is the sequel of the 1989 drama film Forever Mery, and features most of the same characters. The film is largely set in ZEN, a bleak, economically deprived quarter on the northern outskirts of Palermo, Sicily, at the end of the 1980s. Its protagonist is Natale Sperandeo (played by Palermo-born actor Francesco Benigno), a young man who has just been released from Malaspina, a juvenile detention centre. Unable to find legitimate work, he takes up with his former gang, consisting of unemployed youths like himself, and perpetrates an armed robbery.
The film also traces the divergent paths taken by his former inmates at Rosaspina (actual name Malaspina), such as Mario "Mery" Libassi, the 17-year-old transvestite, who resumes his previous sordid career as a male prostitute while awaiting trial for the assault on a client; Claudio Catalano, while seeking to avoid the vindictive Carmelo Vella (who blames Claudio for the loss of his left eye), obtains work as a mechanic in another neighbourhood, but shortly afterwards discovers his girlfriend, Vita is pregnant; Antonino Patané is forced to push drugs in order to maintain his two small children after the financial police sequester his potatoes which Antonino was selling without a license; and Giovanni Trapani, nicknamed King Kong and a member of Natale's gang, is fatally shot by a plainclothes police officer outside the open-air market of Vucciria after a long chase through the streets of Palermo for having robbed a car radio.
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