Release Date | 1993-11-28 |
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Runtime | 120 minutes |
Genres | Drama, TV Movie |
Stars | Oprah Winfrey, Maya Angelou, Keith David, Mark Lane, Norman D. Golden II |
Directors | Anita W. Addison, Alex Kotlowitz, Bobby Smith Jr., James A. Miller, Linda Perlin |
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.