Bad Boys is a 1983 juvenile delinquent melodrama set primarily in a tough reform school for boys. The general plot outline could have been taken from any number of generic late 1950s-era juvenile delinquent exploitation films - even the self-descriptive title, with its dual emphasis on dangerousness ("bad") and youth ("boys," not "men") is reminiscent of films such as Young and Wild (1958), The Rebel Breed (1960), and Untamed Youth. 1983 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Juvenile delinquency refers to antisocial or criminal acts performed by juveniles. ... Poster for The Perils of Pauline (1914). ... A reform school in the United States was a term used to define, often somewhat euphemistically, what was often essentially a penal institution for boys, generally teenagers. ... // Events and trends The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the height of the baby-boom from returning... 1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Sean Penn, fresh out of his star-making supporting role as stoner Jeff Spicoli in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, plays Mick O'Brien, a 16-year-old Irish hood from Chicago. While most of Mick's crimes involve snatching purses, vandalism, and getting into brawls, he aspires to bigger and better things, which leads him to attempt ripping off a rival hood, Paco Moreno (Esai Morales). Everything goes wrong: Mick's partner and best friend (played by a pre-Ferris Bueller's Day Off Alan Ruck) is killed, and Mick, while trying to escape the police, accidentally runs over and kills an eight-year-old boy who happens to be Paco's kid brother. Sean Penn winning the 2004 Oscar for the Best Actor Sean Penn (born August 17, 1960 in Santa Monica, California) is an American film actor. ... Fast Times at Ridgemont High is a 1982 American teen film directed by Amy Heckerling and written by Cameron Crowe (who wrote both the screenplay and a book of the same name which inspired the movie). ... Chicago, colloquially known as the Second City and the Windy City, is the third-largest city in population in the United States and the largest inland city in the country. ... Esai Morales is an actor who has most recently starred as Lt. ... Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) shakes things up on a parade float Ferris Buellers Day Off is a 1986 film written and directed by John Hughes. ... Alan Ruck (born July 1, 1956 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American actor with experience on the stage, television and movies. ...

Because he's under 18, Mick is sent to the Rainford Juvenile Correctional Facility rather than a state prison for adults. However, as the film makes clear, this "juvenile correction facility" is not a place where troubled kids are reformed, but rather a place where they grow tougher, angrier, and more prepared for a life of adult crime. Most of the wardens and counselors seem to have resigned themselves to the role of zoo keepers, with the exception of Ramon Herrera (Reni Santoni), a former gang member who talks tough to the inmates, but holds out hope for some of them, especially Mick. Reni Santoni, born April 21, 1939 in New York City, is a film, television and voice actor. ...

In his second time in the director's chair (his first was 1981's Halloween II), Rick Rosenthal relies quite heavily on Steadicam and crane shots. The scene in which Mick is first brought into the main hall of the reform school is a good example, as it allows us to take in the entire space—the multiple levels, the gray walls, the leering faces of the other inmates—in an attempt to put us right in Mick's shoes. Given his disposition at the beginning of the film, it is hard to imagine that Mick could be a particularly sympathetic character, but Penn's performance is generally regarded as so forceful in its naturalism that the audience sides with him. In some ways, writer Richard Di Lello (Colors) stacks the deck by making Mick's crime of manslaughter truly "accidental," but the filmmakers never shy away from the fact that Mick is a bad kid. This provides a deeper sense of character development in the film, as Mick makes hard decisions during his stint in jail, evolving from an angry and aimless boy to a young man who will take responsibility for his life. 1981 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Halloween II (aka Halloween II: The Nightmare Isnt Over!) (1981) is the sequel to the hugely popular horror film, Halloween. ... To film this recreated Victorian London street scene, the cameraman next to the lamp post is using a steadicam and wearing the harness required to support it. ... Colors is a Utah area acoustic pop music group. ...

Mick's cellmate, a small, wiry Jewish kid named Horowitz, is played by Eric Gurry, who gives the character both a much-needed sense of humor (thus inducing a few laughs into the otherwise grim material) and an element of danger (he is at the reform school because he firebombed a bowling alley in an attempt to kill some kids who beat him up). In a story like this, there are always the toughest thugs in the group, in this case a couple of brawny sadists named Viking (Clancy Brown) and Tweety (Robert Lee Rush). As soon as their alpha male status is established, the plot demands that Mick's first step toward defining himself will be to stand up to them, but the way in which he does it is so brutal and sudden that it feels surprising. The word Jew (Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity; and often a combination of these attributes. ... Bowling ball and two pins Bowling can refer to two distinctly different types of game. ... Clancy Brown as Brother Justin Clancy Brown (born January 5, 1959 in Urbana, Ohio, USA) is an American actor best known for his role as the Kurgan (a. ... An alpha male or alpha female is the individual in the community to whom the others follow and defer. ...

Paco is eventually incarcerated at the same reform school, thus leading to an inevitable showdown between him and Mick.

External links

• Bad Boys at the Internet Movie Database