Wild Thing (1987) on Netflix
PG-1319871h 32mActionDramaThriller
A boy whose parents are killed by drug dealers escapes into the slums, where a bag lady takes him in. Grown wild, he defends the neighborhood. Social worker Jane falls for him.
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- Netflix2.3/5
- IMDb5.3/10862 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes40%
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Plot summary
After a botched drug deal leaves his parents dead, a boy runs from the scene and a bag lady takes him in. She teaches him about the Blue Coats, the cops, and the White Coats, the doctors. He grows up wild in the slums, and in time he becomes an urban Tarzan who defends innocents, known as an urban legend and a champion of street justice who espouses a 1960s philosophy and comes to the aid of the helpless and the oppressed. He carries a bow and arrow and makes his own equipment, among it a grappling hook built from an old umbrella, and a cat keeps him company. Jane, a concerned social worker, falls for him. Street gangs and drug dealers terrorize the people who live in the neighborhood.
Cast
- Robert Bednarskias Wild Thing (3 Years Old)
- Theo Caesaras Rasheed
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Wild Thing (1987)
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- John Sayles says he was brought in to rewrite Wild Thing heavily after the producers disliked another writer's draft; they then hired that second-draft writer to direct but told him he could not change the script, and the first two writers refused credit, so Sayles got sole credit.
