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| Ashley Walters | ... | Ricky | |
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Luke Fraser | ... | Curtis |
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Leon Black | ... | Wisdom |
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Clare Perkins | ... | Beverley (as Claire Perkins) |
| Sharea Samuels | ... | Shea (as Sharea-mounira Samuels) | |
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Curtis Walker | ... | Leon |
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Rio Tison | ... | Rio |
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Clark Lawson | ... | Godfrey |
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Jadiel Vitalis | ... | Meadow |
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Sylvester Williams | ... | Neville |
| Jaime Winstone | ... | Natalie (as Jamie Winstone) | |
| Louise Delamere | ... | Probation Officer | |
| Des Hamilton | ... | School Teacher | |
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Chris Callendar | ... | Ricky's Solicitor |
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Husseyn Clus | ... | Turkish Van Driver |
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In one of East London's most volatile neighborhoods, pride, rivalry and revenge are the only codes on the street. Touted as a British Boyz in the Hood, Bullet Boy is a gripping and authentic drama that takes an unflinching look at two troubled, street-smart boys. Fresh out of jail, 18-year-old Ricky (Ashley Walters, Get Rich or Die Tryin') and his 12-year-old brother, Curtis, struggle to walk the straight and narrow when a minor street clash escalates into an all-out neighborhood war. For Ricky and Curtis, friendships, family and loyalty will be tested to the extreme in a world where guns are a fact of everyday life and boys try to be men before they're even teenagers. Music by Massive Attack. Written by Anonymous
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Rated R for violence, a strong sex scene, language and some drug use | See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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EnglishRelease Date:
8 April 2005 (UK) See more »Also Known As:
Bullet Boy - Sem Perdão See more »Filming Locations:
Hackney, London, England, UKEdit
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Budget:
£1,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
£140,332 (United Kingdom), 10 April 2005, Limited ReleaseCompany Credits
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Performed by Terri Walker
Written by Louise Francis and James Yards
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Curtis is seen playing the popular game "Tekken 4" twice during the film. See more »Goofs
When Rio and Leon are playing hide and seek, the boom microphone is visible in the lower left corner screen for a second. See more »Soundtracks
Drawing BoardPerformed by Terri Walker
Written by Louise Francis and James Yards
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I would like to start off saying that I appreciated the movie for dealing with the black community in London. No rude cockney gangsters, catchy crime scams or laughably stupid dope dealers. The family this movie deals with is a single mum home with two sons, one just out of prison, the other still too young to be involved in anything hazardous, but looking up at his brother and already copying some of his ways.
I enjoyed the language and the characters who were all convincing and complex enough but, how carefully put down they were, the more obvious and stereotypical were the things happening to them. Everything going from bad to worse, who plays with fire is gonna get burnt. And then the ultimate contrast of either sinking into crime and sin (devil), or choosing the righteous path and go to church every Sunday (god).
This easy moralism hurt the rest of the film. It made things predictable. It was like a newspaper article collage, one shock after the other. It took away much of the complexity that I found in the characters themselves. It really is a shame because the development of the characters could have been much more subtle and would have fit in better with the style of the movie that deals with a gritty context matter but managed to use a soft and sometimes almost dreamy camera and score, not unlike other recent British films, such a 'Morvern Callar' and '16 Years of alcohol'.