Bad Boys is a 1983 American drama film primarily set in a juvenile detention center, starring Sean Penn, Esai Morales, and Ally Sheedy, directed by Rick Rosenthal. The original music score was composed by Bill Conti.
Mick O'Brien (Penn) is 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 ...
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Bad Boys is a 1983 American drama film primarily set in a juvenile detention center, starring Sean Penn, Esai Morales, and Ally Sheedy, directed by Rick Rosenthal. The original music score was composed by Bill Conti.
Mick O'Brien (Penn) is 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 (Morales). Everything goes wrong: Mick's partner and best friend Carl (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.
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,...
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