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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Cast
42 people
Sean Penn
Mick O'Brien
Known for
Mystic River
The Game
Reni Santoni
Ramon Herrera
Known for
Dirty Harry
Cobra
Jim Moody
Gene Daniels
Known for
The Last Dragon
Fame
Eric Gurry
Horowitz
Known for
Author! Author!
Esai Morales
Paco Moreno
Known for
Titans
Caprica
Ally Sheedy
J. C. Walenski
Known for
Short Circuit
The Breakfast Club
Clancy Brown
Viking Lofgren
Known for
SpongeBob SquarePants
The Shawshank Redemption
Robert Lee Rush
Tweety
Also in
Dressed to Kill
Enemy Territory
John Zenda
Wagner
Known for
Halloween II
Galactica 1980
Tony Mockus Jr.
Warden Bendix
Known for
F.I.S.T.
Alan Ruck
Carl Brennan
Known for
Succession
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Erik Barefield
Terrell
No other roles listed
Rick Rosenthal Director · Richard Di Lello Writer Bill Conti Composer
Worldwide gross $9.2M · Budget $5M · United States release March 25, 1983
Box office
Budget
$5,000,000
Worldwide gross
$9,190,819
Gross vs. budget
1.8×
Production
EMI Films
Production
Solofilm
Production
United States · United Kingdom
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · March 25, 1983
Theatrical
Australia
June 17, 1983 · Theatrical
Denmark
July 18, 1983
Germany
August 12, 1983 · Theatrical
Greece
August 3, 1983
Japan
February 2, 1985 · Theatrical
Netherlands
July 14, 1983 · Theatrical
April 7, 2002 · TV · V8
August 26, 2004 · Physical · DVD
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