Bad Boys
There's only one person left who believes Mick O'Brien can make it... Mick O'Brien.
Country
Production
Budget
$0
Box office
$9 190 819
Director
Actors
Sean Penn, Reni Santoni, Jim Moody, Eric Gurry, Esai Morales, Ally Sheedy, Clancy Brown, Robert Lee Rush, John Zenda, Tony Mockus Jr.
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Richard Di Lello
Producer
Marty Hornstein, Robert H. Solo
Camera operator
Bruce Surtees
Composer
Bill Conti
Artist
J. Michael Riva
Audition
Howard Feuer, Jane Alderman, Mary Gail Artz
Editing
Short description
Mick O'Brien is a young Chicago street thug torn between a life of petty crime and the love of his girlfriend. But when the heist of a local drug dealer goes tragically wrong Mick is sentenced to a brutal juvenile prison where violence is a rite of passage and respect is measured in vengeance.
What's left behind the scenes
- During the filming of a scene where his character runs through the forest after escaping, Sean Penn broke his leg. This forced a halt to filming for 8 weeks.
- Real correctional officers from juvenile detention facilities and their wards played cameo roles in some scenes of the film.
- Constructing the set for the juvenile correctional facility in Chicago cost half a million dollars.
- All the actors performed their own stunts.
- To prepare for the role, Sean Penn grew his hair long, asked for a tattoo to be drawn on his arm, and dressed like members of street gangs. Additionally, he and the film's director, Rick Rosenthal, even accompanied Chicago police officers on duty who specialized in dealing with street gangs. On one occasion, Penn himself was mistaken for a gang member.
- Actor Sean Penn wanted to better embody the role, for his character to have bad teeth – with crowns and, perhaps, a couple of gaps between them, but his mother, the daughter of a dentist, objected, stating that there was no need to ruin his beautiful teeth, even for the sake of the role.
- Sean Penn insisted on being called by the same name as his character – Mick O'Brien – during filming. Moreover, when he spent a week filming at another correctional facility (strict regime), his uniform name tag read “Mick O’Brien.”
- To better embody the character, actor Sean Penn wanted his character to have bad teeth—with crowns and perhaps a couple of gaps—but his mother, the daughter of a dentist, opposed this, stating that there was no reason to ruin beautiful teeth, even for the sake of a role.
- While filming a scene in which his character runs through the woods after escaping, Sean Penn broke his leg. As a result, filming had to be suspended for eight weeks.
- Sean Penn insisted on being called by his character's name, Mick O'Brien, during filming. Furthermore, when he spent a week filming at another correctional facility (maximum security), his uniform name tag read 'Mick O'Brien'.
- Preparing for the role, Sean Penn grew his hair out, had a tattoo drawn on his arm, and dressed like a member of a street gang. Additionally, he and director Rick Rosenthal accompanied Chicago police officers who specialized in street gangs as they went on duty. Once, Penn himself was mistaken for a gang member.
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