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Bad Boy Street

Country: USA, Language: English, 80 mins

  • Director: Todd Verow
  • Writer: Jim Dwyer; Todd Verow
  • Producer: Jim Dwyer; Todd Verow

CGiii Comment

Well...we weren't exactly excited when this one plopped onto the review desk...another offering from the prolific production team...that is, Messieurs Verow et Dwyer.

So, we decided, to approach a Verow film from a different angle - as if we had never seen anything that this over-producing director has done before...here goes...

That's it - we endured the first 10 minutes and our objectivity flew (very rapidly) out of the window...same shit, different country.

Technically...the sound quality is unacceptable, the camera work amateur and the editor should, immediately, consider a career change.

Creatively...Dwyer's writing is crepe-like: flat, pedestrian, in desperate need of a tasty filling...and, as some might say when faced with  badly made crepe...rather than stuff it, bin it...as is the case here.

Verow's direction and acting are - considering his experience - embarrassingly amateur...cringingly so.

Miranda can't act and Monterno does the best he can with such a lamentable script.

The soundtrack can only be described as horrific.

Two things to remember, Messieurs: quality over quantity and, as clearly demonstrated in your case, practice doesn't always lead to perfection...it should, at least, aspire to mediocrity - not so here.


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The(ir) Blurb...

Frenchman Claude (Yann De Monterno) had a bad relationship in USA ages ago; that's why he came back to France. One early dawn as he is walking towards his home, he sees a drunken American lying on the pavement. Claude takes him to his home because there was no way to identify the Young American. When they have a chance to talk, the young American's name is Brad (Kevin Miranda). That chance meeting leads to their relationship but Brad seems an enigma, seeming aloof even to Claude's BFF Catherine (Florence D' Azemar). Things get worse on the day of Claude's birthday, when a group of friends surprise him at his home; one recognizes Brad. Will Claude and Brad have the chance for a long term relationship?

Cast & Characters

Florence d'Azemar as Catherine;
Yann de Monterno as Claude;
Kevin Miranda as Brad;
Todd Verow as Michael