Summary 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. View more details
Directed : Anita W. Addison
Written : Bobby Smith Jr. Alex Kotlowitz
Stars : Keith David Oprah Winfrey Norman D. Golden II Mark Lane
Genres : Drama
Release date : Nov 27, 1993
Countries of origin : United States
Language : English
Filming locations : Chicago, Illinois, USA
Production companies : LOMO Productions
Summary 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. View more details
Genres : Drama
Release date : Nov 27, 1993
Countries of origin : United States
Language : English
Filming locations : Chicago, Illinois, USA
Production companies : LOMO Productions
