

Bad Boys
There's only one person left who believes Mick O'Brien can make it... Mick O'Brien.
Mick O'Brien is a young Chicago street thug torn between a life of petty crime and the love of his girlfriend. But when the heist of a local drug dealer goes tragically wrong Mick is sentenced to a brutal juvenile prison where violence is a rite of passage and respect is measured in vengeance.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- —
- Box office
- $9.2M
- Language
- English
- prison
- irish-american
- juvenile prison
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalR25 Mar 1983
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalR 18+17 Jun 1983
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1612 Aug 1983
JapanJP
- TheatricalR15+2 Feb 1985
NetherlandsNL
- Theatrical1614 Jul 1983
- TV16V87 Apr 2002
- Physical16DVD26 Aug 2004
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Bad Boys was released on 25 March 1983.
Audience reviews
3- B8/10
Bazzjazz
5/8/2018
Being an early favorite of when I first discovered the potential of Sean Penn. Really gritty film centered around some youths that are ‘raging against the machine’ and learned to fend for themselves on the street. It’s a good film if you can appreciate it in it’s own time and merit.
- C6/10
CinemaSerf
11/28/2022
Sean Penn is "O'Brien" who is sent down for the accidental killing of an eight year old lad. His time in prison subjects him to the usual pressures and bullying but he allies with the shrewd electronics whizz "Horowitz" (Eric Gurry) and slowly but surely starts to learn the ropes, turn the tables and thrive. When he learns that the older brother of the dead boy has seriously assaulted his girlfriend "JC" (a few, spar…
- R7/10
RobMcJ
11/6/2023
Originally watched this on TV (WUTV Buffalo 29) and I vividly remembered the soda can scene - (although I thought he put them in a sock) plus the performances of Sean Penn and Esai Morales. I did not remember a young Ally Sheedy, Clancy Brown and Alan Ruck.
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