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. |
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Ratings: | IMDB: 6.8/10 | |
Released: | November 28, 1993 | |
Runtime: | 120 min | |
Genres: | Drama | |
Companies: | Harpo Productions | |
Cast: | Keith David Oprah Winfrey Mark Lane Norman D. Golden II | |
Crew: | Alex Kotlowitz Bobby Smith Jr. Anita W. Addison | |
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