Bad Boys
1983 · Movie · R · 123 min · ★ 7.0 · 72% critics
A troubled teen from Chicago gets caught up in a botched robbery and is sent to a harsh juvenile detention center. Inside, survival means navigating bullying, shifting alliances, and constant threats, while tensions from the outside world follow him in and push him toward a dangerous choice.
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Details
- Years
- 1983
- Release date
- 1983-03-25
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 123 min
- Max quality
- HD
- Critic score
- 72/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.0/10 (302 votes)
- Box office
- $9,000,000
- Budget
- $5,000,000
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a tough, gritty juvenile-prison drama with constant tension and raw emotion, in the vein of Midnight Express; Not for you if you avoid disturbing violence or bleak, downbeat stories.
Pros: gritty, realistic tone; strong young performances; tense prison rivalry | Cons: very violent content; slow middle stretch; predictable story beats
Themes
- prison
- irish-american
- juvenile prison
Cast & crew
Sean Penn
as Mick O'Brien
Reni Santoni
as Ramon Herrera
Jim Moody
as Gene Daniels
Eric Gurry
as Horowitz
Esai Morales
as Paco Moreno
Ally Sheedy
as J. C. Walenski
Clancy Brown
as Viking Lofgren
- RR
Robert Lee Rush
as Tweety
John Zenda
as Wagner
- TJ
Tony Mockus Jr.
as Warden Bendix
Directed by Rick Rosenthal