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NUMBERS
Box Office: $6,044,618
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CONSENSUS
A forgettable effort that leaves no cliches unturned.
CAST & CREW
Matt Dillon, Stephen Dorff, Brad Renfro
Directed by Scott Kalvert
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SYNOPSIS
Scott Kalvert's (THE BASKETBALL DIARIES) tale of escalating gang violence in a Brooklyn Italian-American neighborhood during the summer of 1958 is WEST SIDE STORY without the singing and dancing. more...
MPAA RATING
R, for strong violence, language, some drug content and brief sexuality
RUNTIME
1 hour, 37 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: May 3, 2002
Video: Aug 6, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
MGM/UA
GENRE
Dramas, 1950s
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Deuces Wild Site
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PARENTS EVALUATION
POSTERS
TRAILER & MEDIA
PHOTOS
NEWS ARTICLES
LINKS
SUBMIT/EDIT ARTICLE
SUBMIT USER REVIEW
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 "All I can say is fuhgeddaboutit."
-- Jason Anderson, EYE WEEKLY
"In its best moments, resembles a bad high school production of Grease, without benefit of song."
-- William Arnold, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
"Gets the look and the period trappings right, but it otherwise drowns in a sea of visual and verbal clichés."
-- Marjorie Baumgarten, AUSTIN CHRONICLE
"A rather tired exercise in nostalgia."
-- Philip Booth, ORLANDO WEEKLY
"If Deuces Wild had been tweaked up a notch it would have become a camp adventure, one of those movies that's so bad it starts to become good. But it wasn't."
-- Liz Braun, JAM! MOVIES
"A Sha-Na-Na sketch punctuated with graphic violence."
-- Walter Chaw, FILM FREAK CENTRAL
"There seems to be no clear path as to where the story’s going, or how long it’s going to take to get there."
-- David Cornelius, AMAZING COLOSSAL WEBSITE
"If they broke out into elaborate choreography, singing and finger snapping it might have held my attention, but as it stands I kept looking for the last exit from Brooklyn."
-- Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone, THEMOVIECHICKS.COM
"The movie is like Scorsese's Mean Streets redone by someone who ignored it in favor of old 'juvenile delinquent' paperbacks with titles like Leather Warriors and Switchblade Sexpot."
-- David Elliott, SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
"Troll the cult section of your local video store for the real deal."
-- Ken Fox, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE
"Not a stereotype is omitted nor a cliché left unsaid."
-- Susan Granger, WWW.SUSANGRANGER.COM
"So clichéd that, at one point, they literally upset an apple cart."
-- Chris Hewitt, ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS
"Been there, done that... a thousand times already, and better."
-- Andy Klein, NEW TIMES
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"The exploitative, clumsily staged violence overshadows everything, including most of the actors."
-- Jay Boyar, ORLANDO SENTINEL
"I can't remember the last time I saw an audience laugh so much during a movie, but there's only one problem…it's supposed to be a drama."
-- Larry Carroll, COUNTINGDOWN.COM
"So stupid, so ill-conceived, so badly drawn, it created whole new levels of ugly."
-- Rose 'Bams' Cooper, 3BLACKCHICKS REVIEW
"Astonishing isn't the word -- neither is incompetent, incoherent or just plain crap. Indeed, none of these words really gets at the very special type of badness that is Deuces Wild."
-- Manohla Dargis, L.A. WEEKLY
"A summary of the plot doesn't quite do justice to the awfulness of the movie, for that comes through all too painfully in the execution."
-- Michael Dequina, MR. BROWN'S MOVIES
"No cliche escapes the perfervid treatment of gang warfare called ces Wild."
-- Bruce Feld, FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
"Deuces Wild treads heavily into Romeo and Juliet/West Side Story territory, where it plainly has no business going."
-- Cynthia Fuchs, POPMATTERS
"Some decent actors inflict big damage upon their reputations."
-- Bob Grimm, LAS VEGAS MERCURY
"It does nothing new with the old story, except to show fisticuffs in this sort of stop-go slow motion that makes the gang rumbles look like they're being streamed over a 28K modem."
-- Stephen Himes, FILM SNOBS
"Cliches are as thick as the cigarette smoke."
-- Jim Lane, SACRAMENTO NEWS & REVIEW
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ROTTEN 0%
Avg. Rating: 3.3/10 |
"A preposterously melodramatic paean to gang-member teens in Brooklyn circa 1958."
-- Steve Daly, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"This is a movie so insecure about its capacity to excite that it churns up not one but two flagrantly fake thunderstorms to underscore the action."
-- Stephen Holden, NEW YORK TIMES
"Contrived, awkward and filled with unintended laughs, the film shows signs that someone other than the director got into the editing room and tried to improve things by making the movie go faster."
-- Kirk Honeycutt, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"Brainless, but enjoyably over-the-top, the retro gang melodrama, Deuces Wild represents fifties teen-gang machismo in a way that borders on rough-trade homo-eroticism."
-- Liam Lacey, GLOBE AND MAIL
"Deuces Wild is an encyclopedia of cliches that shoplifts shamelessly from farewell-to-innocence movies like The Wanderers and A Bronx Tale without cribbing any of their intelligence."
-- Terry Lawson, DETROIT FREE PRESS
"It's clear why Deuces Wild, which was shot two years ago, has been gathering dust on MGM's shelf."
-- Lou Lumenick, NEW YORK POST
"Propelled not by characters but by caricatures."
-- Michael O'Sullivan, WASHINGTON POST
"It's tough to tell which is in more abundant supply in this woefully hackneyed movie, directed by Scott Kalvert, about street gangs and turf wars in 1958 Brooklyn -- stale cliches, gratuitous violence, or empty machismo."
-- Jonathan Perry, BOSTON GLOBE
"If there's a heaven for bad movies, Deuces Wild is on its way."
-- Geoff Pevere, TORONTO STAR
"No telegraphing is too obvious or simplistic for this movie."
-- Claudia Puig, USA TODAY
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 "This is a film that manages to find greatness in the hue of its drastic iconography."
-- Jon Lap, APOLLO GUIDE
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* In fairness to critics whose last name begins with a letter at the end of the alphabet, certain pages are sorted in reverse order, z-a.
* Certain "Deuces Wild" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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