Rating: - Heartbreaking, eye-opening view of streetlife for runaway kids
Although this video was shot some time ago, by the famed photographer Mary Ellen Mark, the conditions are as applicable now as they were back when it was made some years ago. This video "Streetwise" portays the life of several street kids in Seattle: "Tiny", the prostitute, who can't be any more than about 13 or 14; "Rat" who goes dumpster-diving for food; and Roberta Josephine (Bobbie Jo) who was eventually strangled to death by Gary Ridgway, the "Green River Killer", active in Seattle at that time and responsible for the deaths of many runaways in the Seattle area.
Rating: - must-see
I absolutely love this movie. You get to know the characters intimately. I love how it is filmed in 1984 and looks it. Lost kids, lost time. POWERFUL. Please, PLEASE some one release this on DVD!
Rating: - "She`s 13 Going On 21".....
Streetwise is a very sad documentary about the lives of
several runaways living on the streets of Seattle,Washington.
The film was made by Martin Bell,Mary Ellen Mark,and Cheryl Mccall.It was based straight from the Life magazine article
called "Streets Of The Lost".
Almost every reviewer of this documentary asks what became of
these kids.The answer is often quite grim.....
1)Dewayne Pomeroy hanged himself in July,1984,the day before his 17th birthday.Some of the street kids held a balloon release
and planted a tree in Freeway Park in his memory.
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Rating: - EVERYTHING LARRY CLARK's "kids" tried and failed to be...
Directed by Martin Bell,who directed his first feature film in 1990,the under-appreciated "American Heart", this 1985 academy award nominee is perhaps one the truly finest documentaries ever made. Inspired by a photo-essay for LIFE by Bell's wife,the brilliant photographer Mary Ellen Mark, "Streetwise" documents the daily lives of a group of throwaway kids who survive on the streets of Seattle through indomitable will to survive; there is,however,one casuality in the film - a teenage boy who committs suicide after viewing rushes of himself visiting his father in prison. His funeral becomes a point of ... Read More
Rating: - Easily The Best Documentary Ever Made
"Streetwise" is easily the best documentary ever made. It also ranks among the finest motion pictures of all time which makes it all the more astonishing that it has never been released on DVD. I have an old VHS copy that I taped many years ago off of cable TV and I drag it out now and again when I want to watch something incredible and compelling. "Streetwise" perfectly captures a moment and place in time--namely downtown Seattle in the early 1980s. It is a haunting and transcendent film that makes you wonder whatever became of most of these kids. I highly recommend "Streetwise" and I urge whomever ... Read More
