Lee George Quinones,
Patti Astor,
Andrew (Zephyr) Witten,
Carlos Morales,
Bill Rice
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This docudrama celebrates the colorful lives of teens who live in the South Bronx. There they are seen break dancing, creating graffiti art, and listening to raucous rap. The slim story centers on Zor... read more
DVD Release Date: October 22, 2002
Stats: 235 reviews
It is an "ultimate" hip-hop 5 elements movie, but it is very forced at times. Still, classic and needs to be seen from anyone who likes film or music.
This movie represents the true meaning of hip-hop. From graffiti, to DJing, to MCing, and b-boying, this movie is def THE hip-hop musical!
after you listen to rakim on a rocky mountain top, you NEED to witness this movie..pure hip hop..sigh..the bronx was so desolate and i grew up in that trash can..
really fun, if only for the scene where grandmster flash is mixing in the kitchen! a great view of early hip-hop and some pretty awesome graffiti as well.
If you have ever been interested in Rap music, African-American studies, or the history of New York. This Movie is for you.
Wild Style lacks a lot of the style of the people in it, but it never neutralizes their vitality. Full Review
Hip-hop rolls on tractor treads now, unafraid to colonize those who hesitate, but in 1982 it was small, self-selecting, and as specific to New York as the World Trade Center. Full Review
The pacing is slow -- inexcusable in a film about music -- except when hip-hop takes over, and Ahearn wisely gives plenty of screen time to the likes of Busy Bee, Rock Steady Crew, and Fab Five Freddy. Full Review
Wild Style is just as important a New York City musical as On the Town, so vital and exuberant are its scenes of a burgeoning cultural moment. Full Review
It's great to see again this bolt of ghetto joy, a kind of updated West Side Story, that shows hip-hop as a living, breathing expression of cultural resistance rather than a crunky, cheerless set of c... Full Review
Nothing else comes close to capturing the atmosphere of the early days of hip-hop and spraycan art, of the burned-out and derelict Bronx. Full Review
This unpolished but authentic film, a drama with the honesty of a documentary, shows hip-hop pure and unvarnished. Full Review
The acting is stilted, and the story almost non-existent. But that isn't the point, Wild Style is a cult classic - indisputably the most important hip hop movie, ever. Full Review
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