Drama

Charm City Kings

- Life happens at the crossroads.

Mouse desperately wants to join The Midnight Clique, the infamous Baltimore dirt bike riders who rule the summertime streets. When Midnight’s leader, Blax, takes 14-year-old Mouse under his wing, Mouse soon finds himself torn between the straight-and-narrow and a road filled with fast money and violence.

Release Date : 2020-01-27

Language :FrenchEnglish

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Overbrook EntertainmentWarner MaxSony Pictures

Production Country : United States of America

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : Mouse

Original Name : Jahi Di'Allo Winston

Gender : Male

Character Name : Blax

Original Name : Meek Mill

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mouse’s Mom

Original Name : Teyonah Parris

Gender : Female

Character Name : Detective Rivers

Original Name : William Catlett

Gender : Male

Character Name : Sweartagawd

Original Name : Kezii Curtis

Gender : Male

Character Name : Lamont

Original Name : Donielle T. Hansley Jr.

Gender : Male

Character Name : Shay

Original Name : Milan Ray

Gender : Female

Character Name : Nicki

Original Name : Chandler DuPont

Gender : Female

Character Name : Young Mouse

Original Name : Hero Hunter

Gender : Male

Character Name : Street Crowd (uncredited)

Original Name : Robert Dobson

Gender : Male

Character Name : Jamal

Original Name : Pacino Braxton

Gender : Male

Character Name : Queen

Original Name : Lakeyria Doughty

Gender : Male

Character Name : Stro

Original Name : Pug

Gender : Male

Character Name : Dr. Parish

Original Name : Jeanette Maus

Gender : Female

Character Name : Grandma

Original Name : Cecelia Ann Birt

Gender : Female

Character Name : Convenience Store Owner (as Arnold Kim)

Original Name : Arnold Y. Kim

Gender : Male

Character Name : Convenience Store Owner's Wife (as Hyonkyung Kate O'Leary)

Original Name : Kate Pak

Gender : Female

Character Name : Derrick

Original Name : Marvin Raheem

Gender : Male

Character Name : Uniform Cop (as David MacDonald)

Original Name : David Andrew MacDonald

Gender : Male

Character Name : Kid

Original Name : Darren Alford

Gender : Male

Character Name : Cop

Original Name : Nathan Corbett

Gender : Male

Character Name : Pretty Girl

Original Name : Talia Williams

Gender : Female

Character Name : Friend

Original Name : LaTonya Blue

Gender : Male

Character Name : Friend

Original Name : Timeka Brown

Gender : Male

Character Name : Reporter

Original Name : Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

Gender : Male

Character Name : Dog Owner at Vet's Office

Original Name : Gina Jun

Gender : Female

Character Name :

Original Name : Obada Adnan

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ride Crowd (uncredited)

Original Name : Tre'a Bertrille

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ride Crowd (uncredited)

Original Name : Wenston Black

Gender : Male

Character Name : Passer-by / Car Driver (uncredited)

Original Name : Rick Kelvin Branch

Gender : Male

Character Name : Dame (uncredited)

Original Name : Damien R. Campbell

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ride Crowd (uncredited)

Original Name : Stephanie Cookie Carson

Gender : Male

Character Name : Trap House King Pin (uncredited)

Original Name : Charles D. Clark

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ride Crowd / Bus Passenger (uncredited)

Original Name : Keith Crosby

Gender : Male

Character Name : Crowd Spectator (uncredited)

Original Name : Eileen Davis

Gender : Male

Character Name : Pretty Girl (uncredited)

Original Name : C'yana Denby

Gender : Male

Character Name : Bike Crowd (uncredited)

Original Name : LaDana Drigo

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ride Crowd (uncredited)

Original Name : Victor Ellis

Gender : Male

Character Name : Bus Rider / Ride Crowd (uncredited)

Original Name : Richard Ricky D Evans

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ride Crowd (uncredited)

Original Name : Melanie Howard

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ride Spectator (uncredited)

Original Name : Adam Huff

Gender : Male

Character Name : Rider

Original Name : Dominic Jackson

Gender : Male

Character Name : Passerby / Ridecrowd (uncredited)

Original Name : Wain Jenkins

Gender : Male

Character Name : Student (uncredited)

Original Name : Makayla Jones

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ride Crowd (uncredited)

Original Name : Eric Lamont

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ride Crowd (uncredited)

Original Name : Angela R. Liles

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ride Crowd (uncredited)

Original Name : Tiana Melvina Woods

Gender : Male

Character Name : Core Ride Crowd (uncredited)

Original Name : Antoinette Montgomery

Gender : Male

Character Name : Police Officer (uncredited)

Original Name : Stephanie Parker

Gender : Male

Character Name : Young woman in crowd (uncredited)

Original Name : Ramona Rideout

Gender : Male

Character Name : Rider

Original Name : Rxchie

Gender : Male

Character Name : Gas Station Customer (uncredited)

Original Name : Mashawn Robertson

Gender : Male

Character Name : Trap House Leader (uncredited)

Original Name : Marcellus ''Bassman'' Shepard

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Memo Sanchez

Gender : Male

Reviews

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2022-09-03

Charm City Kings evokes such films as Boyz n’ the Hood, A Bronx Tale, and Torque. I know; one of those things isn’t like the others. The filmmakers, however, put the motorcycle fetish to good use, infusing it with imagery that’s almost religious in order to reveal its real-world impracticality. Mouse (Jahi Di'Allo Winston) is a bright 14-year-old boy with a natural affinity for and encyclopedic knowledge of animals that make him a natural-born veterinarian — if he lives long enough to become one. His late older brother Stro (Tyquan Ford), whom Mouse idolized, has become the patron saint of Mouse's adoration of bikes; whenever he speaks about them, Mouse is overwhelmed with a kind of ecstatic, frantic fervor. Meanwhile, gangbanger Blax (Meek Mill) and detective Rivers (Will Catlett) butt heads over Mouse’s future. It’s worth noting that this conflict is not distilled into a black-and-white morality, and the two men strike an unexpected deal to ensure Mouse gets a second chance. The film has been skillfully staged, photographed and edited (Katelin Arizmendi’s cinematography in particular provides us with a vivid experience of the Baltimore summer streets) — perhaps a little too much so; there’s a high speed chase that ironically seems to glorify exactly the sort of behavior that the movie as a whole condemns. Cutting this sequence would have solved another pressing issue: that of the excessive running time. I’m splitting hairs, though; unlike most movies about motorized criminals (like Fast and Furious, to mention one other than Torque), Charm City Kings knows that actions have consequences; can't live life in the fast lane very long without crashing sooner or later. The film is also aware that cycles must be broken for things to change. Mouse goes down the same path as his brother, never stopping to think that he could end up the same way; on the contrary, he is convinced that for some reason he is different, special — and he is, or rather, he could be, if he really wanted to. I'm always complaining about kids acting like adults in movies for no other reason than that it's 'cute.' Here, though, Winston acts not like an adult but like a child doing his best to appear older than his age to fit in with the group he wants to be a part of. Fittingly, his performance isn't resolute and steady but tentative and uncertain, and that's the perfect note for the character (Blax even warns him that a real man doesn't stutter or look down, failing to realize at the time that Mouse remains, despite his bravado, a kid who has no idea what he's getting himself into). This is a great performance from Winston as a kid who, on streets where children must often grow too fast for their own good, wants to be the first to cross the finish line.