joeshields A decent story, good acting, but for a good number of people who have spent any time in Philly and/or Pittsburgh, ... you can't pull off calling Pittsburgh 'Philadelphia' (anymore then you can call Philadelphia 'Pittsburgh'). Both cities are great locations for movies... but just because they both happen to be in Pennsylvania, you can't interchange them -- geographically, architecturally they are distinctively unique (even if you leave the "Youse Guys" and the "Younse" accents out of it). Had South Philly's "Rocky" been filmed in Pittsburgh but pawned off as Philly it wouldn't be the classic it became, (nor conversely would the "Deer Hunter") it would have been ruined. I don't know how much better "10th & Wolf" would have been if the geography matched the story, but for me it would have been more believable.

lastliberal Basic story here is one of situational ethics.This is the kind of thing that the right-wing nut-jobs on radio and TV decry except when it is used to do things like fight drugs or find terrorists.In this movie James Marsden plays a returning Desert Storm vet that got in trouble and is used by the government (Brian Dennehy & Leo Rossi) to rejoin his brother and friend (Giovanni Ribisi and Brad Renfro) to infiltrate the Philadelphia mob and bring down the drug lord. Torture and murder are government-approved for this purpose.Marsden and Ribisi do excellent jobs here, and this is the best work I have seen by Piper Perabo. It even has a cameo by Tommy Lee, which would have been much better is it was Pamela instead.

dickknows I just rented the DVD and was looking forward to seeing it after the preview. It had to be the directing because it was almost good. Renfro was a victim of multiple personalities and Ribisi , although I wanted him to do well, was just over the top ridiculous. And yes the cameos by Kilmer and others were so short that it felt forced and just dropped in because they were available for a few hours. I should have known it was a stinker because there really wasn't any buzz about this film. I don't know what film these other people were watching but this was pretty bad . there were just to many things wrong with this film to name. Maybe a division of Wal-Mart started making movies. Its the only way to explain the decent cast and terrible outcome.I'm sure you will agree.

Sunee161 Funny....in the opening subtitles, I saw Phildelphia, 1984.In case you didn't know this movie was supposed to take place in Philly at 10th & Wolf! Being from South Philly I NEVER saw mountains in the background while hanging on Wolf street when I was a kid! If a movie is supposed to be called Times Square wouldn't you expect it to be filmed in NYC!!!!!!!!!!!! 10 & Wolf is in Philly the last time I checked! And well done to the editing crew for leaving in several ads using a Pittsburgh area code. I think you meant 215, or perhaps 610, or 484, or even 267? You may want to spend a few minutes in the location you're basing an entire movie on next time around. Bottom line:Location = not even close. Ridiculous. Clichés = plentiful (right down to a clown singing the godfather theme...c'mon people) Cameos: ulch. Tommy, you should've stuck with drumming.Even if there was anyone in the South Phily mob around in 1984, they probably wouldn't be slugging down cosmopolitans, either.Thanks for the laughs. I'd really like the last 107 minutes of my life back.