Deuces Wild

2002 Drama

This gang warfare drama is from director Scott Kalvert, whose previous film was the controversial and violent The Basketball Diaries (1995). In the sweltering summer of 1958, Leon (Stephen Dorff) and Bobby (Brad Renfro) are leaders of the Brooklyn street gang known as the Deuces. When their brother Alley Boy died from an overdose, the two toughs vowed to keep narcotics out of their turf, but now they're being muscled by a new and more powerful gang called the Vipers, fueled by drug money and led by mobster Fritzy Zennetti (Matt Dillon). As a vicious gang war heats up that will determine Brooklyn's future, a romance develops between Bobby and Annie (Fairuza Balk), the leader of a girl gang. Deuces Wild co-stars Frankie Muniz, Balthazar Getty, Max Perlich, Drea de Matteo, Deborah Harry, Vincent Pastore, Joshua Leonard, James Franco, and Johnny Knoxville. more..

Director: Scott Kalvert

Starring: Stephen Dorff, Brad Renfro, Fairuza Balk, Norman Reedus, Max Perlich

 30 Reviews  1 Awards

Reviews

  • It would appear that director Scott Kalvert never met a cliché he didn't like. No telegraphing is too obvious or simplistic for this movie.

    Claudia Puig - USA Today

    19 January 2013

  • Sort of "West Side Story" set in 1958 Brooklyn -- minus the music or competent storytelling -- is clearly not dealing from anything close to a full deck.

    Lou Lumenick - New York Post

    19 January 2013

  • If you put the scripts for ''West Side Story,'' ''Mean Streets,'' and ''The Warriors'' in a blender, you might wind up with something like Deuces Wild, a preposterously melodramatic paean to gang-member teens in Brooklyn circa 1958.

    - Entertainment Weekly

    19 January 2013

  • Just about the only things that remotely redeem this movie are the solid acting performances by the principals, who make the most of the one-dimensional material given them.

    - The Boston Globe

    19 January 2013

  • At the very least, Corman would have remembered to make the movie fun.

    Rene Rodriguez - Miami Herald

    19 January 2013

Awards

  • Outstanding Achievement in Fight Choreography

    American Choreography Awards (2002)

     

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