Deuces Wild - Wild in den Straßen (2002)

Bobby, a member of The Deuces, and the sister of the rival Vipers member fall in love, promoting a street war between the two factions.

Director:

Scott Kalvert

Writers:

Paul Kimatian, Christopher Gambale

Stars:

Stephen Dorff, Brad Renfro, Fairuza Balk

1 win & 1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Stephen Dorff	...	Leon
Brad Renfro	...	Bobby
Fairuza Balk	...	Annie
Norman Reedus	...	Marco
Max Perlich	...	Freddie
Drea de Matteo	...	Betsy (as Drea DeMatteo)
Vincent Pastore	...	Father Aldo
Frankie Muniz	...	Scooch
Balthazar Getty	...	Jimmy Pockets
Nancy Cassaro	...	Esther
Matt Dillon	...	Fritzy
Debbie Harry	...	Wendy (as Deborah Harry)
James Franco	...	Tino
Joshua Leonard	...	Punchy (as Josh Leonard)
Ava Lee Scott	...	Brenda (as Alba Albanese)

Storyline

Two brothers, Leon and Bobby are members of the street gang in Brooklyn known as the deuces. Their brother was killed by a drug overdose a few years earlier and the gang is determined to keep drugs off their block. Another more vicous gang known as the vipers is a possible threat to Leon and Bobby's efforts. The deuces are determined to do whatever is necessary to keep drugs off their block even if that means dying.

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Plot Keywords:

gang | new york city | drug overdose | gang war | 1950s | 

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Taglines:

Some Lines Should Never Be Crossed.

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Genres:

Action | Crime | Drama

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Certificate:

16

Did You Know?

Trivia

Fairuza Balk wore hair pieces in the movie, and she even had special aquatic hair clip ind for the pool scene.

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Goofs

During the scene between Bobby yelling at his mom and Leon sending him out, someone (clearly not Bobby or Leon) casts a shadow on the wall.

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Quotes

Fritzy: If this comes back to me in any way, I don't know you.
Marco: That's why we're not havin this conversation.

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Connections

Featured in WatchMojo: Top 10 Movie Gang Fights (2015)

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Soundtracks

To Be Loved (Forever)
Written by Ken Goodloe, Ted Goodloe, Joe Jones and Otis Munson
Performed by The Pentagons
Courtesy of Lee Silver Productions/Tru-Gem Records
By Arrangement with Celebrity Licensing Inc.

User Reviews

*** out of 5

Anyone who has seen The Outsiders, Goodfellas, A Bronx Tale or Last Man Standing doesn't really need to watch this film because you've already seen it. The line up here includes a very promising cast of Steven Dourff as Leon, Brad Renfro as Bobby, Matt Dillon as Fritzy, Frankie Muniz as Scooch and Johnny Knoxville as Vince. But with all those characters comes very little character developementand leaves us with a full cast of characters that we don't care about with the small exception of Leon. We start the film with the death of Leon's brother and the imprisonment of Marko, the rival gang leader who gave his brother the drugs that killed him. Fast forward three years, Marko is out of jail and all hell is breaking loose on Leon's once peaceful block, Marko is also making a deal with Fritzy (the head of the block) to get his drugs back on the street and Leon's brother Bobby is becoming involved with the sister of a Viper. This film has everything, the rival gangs (Outsiders), the big show downs (Last Man Standing), the gangster who is in charge of everything (Bronx Tale) and the drug dealing (Goodfellas). But because of this the flim is robbed of any sort of self identity and becomes rather bogged down and boring, leading up to a conclusion that is inevidable because we have all seen it a hundred times before, just better. This film could have been a masterpeice were it put into the proper hands, but Scott Calvert is no Martin Scorsese and Matt Dillon is no Robert De Niro, so we are left satisfied to some extent, but still feel robbed of something. The lackluster direction and enormously cliched script don't help matters any. It's clear director Scott Calvert tried his hardest to be clever but his annoying camera tricks don't suit this movie well at all, in fact some of them are, at time, very hard to watch. The fight scenes are plentiful but lack any excitement due to the horrible choreograhpy and again cheesy camera movement making it hard to tell who is who. Matt Dillon show plenty of promise but is only given four scenes in the whole movie, Johnny Knoxville is a nobody that serves no importance and is hardly noticable and Frankie Muniz hardly mutters a word the whole time. I have always found Steven Dourff to have possessed a certain degree of talent but he has yet to be given a role where he can break free and show us what he is really made of, but he is still, by far, the highlight of the film. Now don't get me wrong, the movie is not a total waste and there are probably lots of people that this sort of thing will appeal to but its lack of originality cancels out any power of emotion and even though we have a cast of characters that I really didn't care about except for Leon, it's an hour and a half of my life that I don't regret.

Details

Official Sites:

BrooklynFilm Interactive Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc [United States]

Country:

USA Germany

Language:

English

Release Date:

3 May 2002 (USA)

Also Known As:

Deuces Wild - Wild in den Straßen

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$10,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$2,704,682, 5 May 2002

Gross USA:

$6,080,065

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$6,282,446

Company Credits

Production Co:

CineWild, Cinerenta Medienbeteiligungs KG, Eternity Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

96 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.39 : 1