Release Date

28 Nov, 1993

Runtime

02:00: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

The devastating story of brothers Lafayette and Pharoah Rivers, children of the Chicago ghetto, is powerfully told here by a Wall Street Journal reporter who first met the boys in 1985 when they were 10 and 7, 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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Actors

Oprah Winfrey

Maya Angelou

Keith David

Mark Lane

Norman D. Golden II

Vonte Sweet

Crystal Laws Green

Crew

Alex Kotlowitz

Bobby Smith Jr.

James A. Miller

Linda Perlin

Anita W. Addison