Streetwise
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Portrays the lives of nine desperate teenagers. Thrown too young into a seedy grown up world, these runaways and castaways survive, but just barely. Rat, the dumpster diver. Tiny, the teen prostitute. Shellie, the baby-faced blonde. DeWayne, the hustler. All old beyond their years. All underage survivors fighting for life and love on the streets of downtown Seattle.... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Streetwise:

Erin Blackwell
Dewayne Pomeroy
Roberta Joseph Hayes
Lulu Couch
Reed Early
Patrice Pitts

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Portrays the lives of nine desperate teenagers. Thrown too young into a seedy grown up world, these runaways and castaways survive, but just barely. Rat, the dumpster diver. Tiny, the teen prostitute. Shellie, the baby-faced blonde. DeWayne, the hustler. All old beyond their years. All underage survivors fighting for life and love on the streets of downtown Seattle.

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Chicago Sun-Times - 10/10 by Roger EbertStreetwise is surprising for the frankness of the material it contains. How did the filmmakers get these people to say these things, to allow the cameras into their lives?
EmanuelLevy.Com - 9/10 by Emanuel LevyEmotionally touching, nicely shot portrait of street kids in Seattle.
User Review - 10/10 by Riff JA spectacular look inside the lives of street kids. It's about how they live, where they sleep, how they get money, their family situation, etc. The stories are heartbreaking and emotional. The doc is so well done it feels as if the camera isn't even recording, as the kids really show their true self and are not acting for the camera. I pray to god that some of these kids got a life of happiness.
User Review - 10/10 by Deering Ra little all over the place, but where it goes is somewhere special and unique. in every story there's a movie, and maybe that's its flaw, but also its grace--never pandering to subject or audience by glorifying any single situation.
User Review - 10/10 by Jae Li think anytime a movie makes a nine-year old want to become a documentary filmmaker, it has more than done its job. such a gutwrenching, but thoughtful film.
User Review - 10/10 by Milk BSuch a brilliant documentary - it acts as a window into these lives as they intertwine on the streets of Seattle circa the 80's. This one's sure to move you -- an instant favorite.
User Review - 10/10 by Matt Gextraordinary documentary if only because director Martin Bell shoots at times where you can't be sure if a scene might be staged, which becomes all the more unlikely when one sees how embedded he really is with these kids - it's like the best MTV True Life episode never aired, incidentally directed by the Maysles. It also is special because it sidesteps some potential traps in sentimentality (one scene with a young guy and his father, who is in prison and talking through glass, made me tear-up), and Bell actually tops Errol Morris's method from Vernon, Florida in putting together the stories of these seemingly unconnected people into a cohesive whole. Only minor liability: those seeking this out due to its connection of Tom Waits doing the soundtrack may be disappointed, as he only chimes in once or twice with songs (most notably in classic somber tone over the end credits with "Take Care of My Children").
User Review - 10/10 by Hernaldo Rsadly The Times of Harvey Milk won the oscar instead of this amazing documentary.
User Review - 10/10 by Eric RAbsolutely one of the best docus I've seen.
User Review - 10/10 by Yasser AThis is one of the roughest, most heartbreaking movies I have ever seen. The access is amazing: Director Martin Bell is with these kids during so many tough, poetic, beautiful, deadly moments and the frankness of portrayal is almost unbearable. A cinematic pearl of a movie. A masterpiece.

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