There Are No Children Here (TV)
1993 · Movie · 120 min. · United States
From Publishers Weekly The devastating story of brothers Lafayette and Pharoah Rivers, children of the Chicago ghetto, is powerfully told here by Kotlowitz, a Wall Street Journal reporter who first met the boys in 1985 when they were 10 and seven, respectively. Their family includes a mother, a frequently absent father, an older brother and younger triplets. We witness the horrors of growing up in an ill-maintained housing project tyrannized by drug gangs and where murders and shootings frequently occur.
Direction Anita W. Addison
Cast Oprah Winfrey · Keith David · Mark Lane · Norman D. Golden · Maya Angelou · Vonte Sweet · Crystal Laws Green · Ellis Peal · Eric McNeal · Ashley Magby · Tiffany Magby · Phillip Edward Van Lear · Earl Johnson · Cheryl Lynn Bruce · Nancy Sheeber
Soundtrack Harold Wheeler
Screenplay Alex Kotlowitz · Bobby Smith Jr.
Cinematography Mike Fash
Original title There Are No Children Here (TV)
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Not rated (FilmAffinity)
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