Synopsis
1950s New York City. A bad and bloody gang war is about to erupt on the dysfunctional streets of Brooklyn. The Deuces at war with the vicious Vipers. Scott Kalvert directs this tale of lust, drugs, mayhem and madness during one hot summer on the streets of New York.
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Cast
- Stephen DorffLeon
- Fairuza BalkAnnie
- Brad RenfroBobby
- Norman ReedusMarco
- Max PerlichFreddie
- Drea de MatteoBetsy
- Vincent PastoreFather Aldo
- Frankie MunizScooch
- Balthazar GettyJimmy Pockets
- Nancy CassaroEsther
Recommendations
- 50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
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. - 40
TV Guide Magazine
Director Scott Kalvert returns to wring every last cliché out 1950s juvenile delinquent movies, without adding anything particularly fresh to the formula. - 30
The A.V. Club
A repellent orgy of gratuitous violence and hackneyed melodrama, Deuces Wild marks a grim nadir for everyone involved, including late cinematographer John A. Alonzo (Chinatown, Harold & Maude), who deserved a much better swan song. - 25
Miami Herald
At the very least, Corman would have remembered to make the movie fun. - 25
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
In its best moments, resembles a bad high school production of "Grease," without benefit of song. - 25
New York Daily News
Deuces Wild is the worst thing to have happened to Brooklyn since the Ice Age severed it from the mainland. - 25
Boston Globe
Just about the only things that remotely redeem this movie are the solid acting performances by the principals, who make the most of the one-dimensional material given them. - 20
Austin Chronicle
Would have been smart to fold before it let its hand go this far.
