Streetwise (1984)
Directed by Martin Bell
This documentary about teenagers living on the streets in Seattle began as a magazine article. The film follows nine teenagers who discuss how they live by panhandling, prostitution, and petty theft.
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What critics compared Streetwise to
From the first scene of biracial, androgynous Star (Sasha Lane) dumpster-diving with her step-siblings, I immediately recalled Mary Ellen Mark’s 1985 Streetwise, another phony attack on American inequality that romanticized reckless adolescents.