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fter "Fast Times at Ridgemont High", Sean Penn took part in more serious roles, such as this gritty look at urban Chicago street gangs.
One gang has Mick O'Brien (Penn) in the center and the other has Mick's nemesis Paco Moreno (Esai Morales) up front. They already have enough reasons to hate each other, but now comes a reason for enough hate where it's do or die.
When a shootout takes place on the streets, Mick's best friend Carl (Alan Ruck) is shot dead. While trying to race the police, Mick accidentally runs over Paco's younger brother, killing him. Having committed vehicular manslaughter, Mick is sent to a juvenile prison full of thieves, murderers and drug dealers while Paco plans to avenge his brother's death.
As Mick enters the prison walls, he makes new friends and enemies. He is bunked with Barry Horowitz (Eric Gurry), who is responsible for an explosion that killed three people. When Mick gets counted, he meets the two barn bosses, Viking Lofgren (Clancy Brown) and Warren "Tweety" Jerome (Robert Lee Rush), who tease the other prisoners. They demonstrate their brutality by killing the other new kid in the prison, and now, Mick himself is a target, but Mick soon shows his brutality by beating up Viking and Tweety with a bag full of unopened cold drink cans, as he is sent to solitary confinement for the rest of the night. The following morning, Mick is declared the new barn boss of the prison.
Meanwhile, Paco crosses paths with Mick's girlfriend J.C. (Ally Sheedy) and attempts to rape her, but Paco is arrested and sent to the same prison where Mick is. Claiming that now is the perfect time for revenge, Paco ends up facing Viking over who is going to take him down first.
Who will get the chance to take down Mick? Will Paco get transferred to another prison? Will Mick survive?
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| | | |  Bad Boys is an interesting thriller about urban street gangs. Sean Penn and Esai Morales are good here.
The only problems with the movie that I can think of is that the plot is very predictable, and it may be too rough for children.
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Ally Sheedy made her feature film debut in this movie.
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The film grossed $9.2 million at the box-office in the U.S.
Also look for Alan Ruck (AKA Cameron Frye) as Sean Penn's buddy Carl. -Thanks to Ellen
Eugene Anthony, who played Ally's dad in "Bad Boys", was also featured in "The Blues Brothers" and the "Purple Rose of Cairo". He is currently teaching acting at Marshall University. He was one of my professors. -Thanks to Christina
Viking is played by Clancy Brown, who can now be seen as the minister in the HBO series "Carnivale." -Thanks to John
Jason Gedrick from "boom town" and movies like "Heavenly Kid", "Rooftops", and "Iron Eagle" plays one of the inmates. At the end where Paco and Mick are fighting, he's one of the inmates cheering them on at the top of the stairwell. -Thanks to A Sandoval
Since co-starring in "Bad Boys", Mr. Clancy Brown has had pretty steady on-screen work. Just a couple of his feature films are "Pet Semetary 2" (here he plays a hard-nosed sheriff who gets killed and buried in the cursed cemetary), and "Blue Steel" (another cop role). More recently he can be heard as the voice of Mr. Krabs on "SpongeBob Squarepants". -Thanks to Bbaby
Clancy Brown is of course the corrupt head of the guard in 90s classic, "The Shawshank Redemption". -Thanks to coandjsmommy
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| | | | In the fight scene, at the end of the movie, the camera is panning around and you can clearly see a camera with its operator between a group of the guys. -Thanks to James
In the fight scene, when they are on the ground rolling around you can see the camera man and sound man in plain view. The camera man has a flower shirt on. Not just a little bit of him showing, he is on the front row of the inmates watching the fight! -Thanks to Daniel Griffett
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| | | Marshall Square, Division And Rush Street, Rainford was actually in St. Charles.
The High School was Lakeview High School in Chicago on the Northside on Ashland Ave. It is still there and running. [Thanks to Beckie]
The indoor scenes of jail were filmed on a huge, indoor two story set built inside the THEN Naval Armory a few hundred feet from Navy Pier. The Armory no longer exists. [Thanks to Sal Amato]
All of the outdoor prison scenes were filmed at was Illinois Youth Center, which is a juvenile prison in St. Charles, Illinois. The radio codes used when Sean Penn and Horowitz tried to escape were the actual radio codes the prison used until 3 years ago.[Thanks to Stacy]
Can you help? Do you know any of the Chicago, Illinois (or any other) filming locations used for Bad Boys? [Please send them in]
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| | | | | Although this movie has a heavy collection of songs, including two classics by Billy Squier.
There was a soundtrack released for "Bad Boys" on Capitol Records (ST-12272) and Cassettes in 1983. It contains ten songs from the film. However, it contains none of Bill Conti's score.
Track Listing:
1. Too Hot to Be Cool - Ebonee Webb 2. One More Time - McFadden & Whitehead 3. Don't Go Away - Melba Moore 4. Street Corner - Ashford & Simpson 5. Give Me Your Love - Peabo Bryson 6. Superstar - T-Connection 7. Check Us Out - Light of the World 8. Night Owls - Little River Band 9. In the Dark - Billy Squier 10. Crime Wave - Prism
The song playing on the radio that blows up in Vikings ear is "Man on your Mind" by The Little River Band. -Thanks to Emphyzema Watkins
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