5.5 / 10
(2 votes)
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.
United States of America
Drama,
TV Movie
120 minutes
1993
Anita W. Addison
LOMO Productions
1995
8.1
2002
8.4
1994
7.4
1982
6.2
1991
6.6
1988
6.5
2016
7.7
2005
6.8
1984
6.8
2008
7.1
2016
6.0
1994
7.1
2002
6.8
2006
6.2
2009
6.9
2007
7.1
2006
6.6
2007
7.9
1975
7.1
1993
7.5