In its overwhelmingly artificial depiction of the street gangs that ruled Brooklyn's mean streets in the 1950s, "Deuces Wild" draws from a phony deck. The most antiquated aspects of "West Side Story" ...

DEUCES WILD: Drama. Starring Stephen Dorff, Matt Dillon, Brad Renfro and Fairuza Balk. Directed by Scott Kalvert. (R. 96 minutes. At Bay Area theaters. ) A movie this bad doesn't need criticism; it ...

Prepare to crank those amps up to eleven.

The face cards of Deuces Wild are rebels with causes. Leon Anthony (Stephen Dorff, Cecil B. Demented) is the king of a club (well, gang) who call themselves the Deuces. They rule half of Sunset Park ...

It’s entirely possible to take a stale and calcified old story — a ’50s neighborhood gang saga replete with murder, revenge and illicit love, for instance — and revitalize it, or at least make it ...

takes place in Brooklyn in the summer of 1958, the year after the Dodgers left for Los Angeles and, as a voice-over tells us, "the streets of Sunset Park ran red." The two events aren't connected, ...

"Deuces Wild" was supposed to come out a long time ago, and that's never an encouraging sign. When you see the movie, you'll know why. In Brooklyn during the summer of 1958, a local gang known as the ...