Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway (TV 1976)15 year old Dawn runs away from what she feels is an intolerable home life. In the big city, she ends up turning to prostitution when she is unable to get a job due to her age. Life at home... See full summary » Director:Randal KleiserWriter:Dalene Young |
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Leigh McCloskey | ... |
Alexander Duncan
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Dawn's Mother
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Harry
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Susie
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Marguerite DeLain | ... |
Frankie Lee
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Swan
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Donald Umber
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Doctor Roberts
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Randy
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Melba
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Librarian
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Paul Bryar | ... |
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15 year old Dawn runs away from what she feels is an intolerable home life. In the big city, she ends up turning to prostitution when she is unable to get a job due to her age. Life at home was never this bad. Written by Brian W Martz <B.Martz@Genie.com>
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27 September 1976 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Egy szökött tinédzser See more »Company Credits
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Gloria: Swan not gonna' like it, Frankie.
Frankie Lee: [indignantly] I'm doin' it for him!
Gloria: Swan don't like his girls to look like they hookers.
Frankie Lee: Hey! I look like a hooker 'cause that's what I am. I'm 17, girl, and this rose is fadin' fast! I gotta' jazz it up.
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Frankie Lee: [Frankie Lee is talking to Gloria, another hooker in her pimp Swan's stable. Frankie is showing off a brand new Swan tattoo on her leg] My price is gonna' go up with this.Gloria: Swan not gonna' like it, Frankie.
Frankie Lee: [indignantly] I'm doin' it for him!
Gloria: Swan don't like his girls to look like they hookers.
Frankie Lee: Hey! I look like a hooker 'cause that's what I am. I'm 17, girl, and this rose is fadin' fast! I gotta' jazz it up.
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Eve Plumb gives a soft but rather touching performance as a naive teen from the sticks who ends up working the Hollywood Boulevard. I loved it when Dawn and her troubled roommate Alexander finally get electricity to their dump ("Bottled sunlight", Dawn says), and the brief scenes where Alexander is tempted by his gift-giving gay customers are handled with surprising resonance and taste. It's not an especially campy movie, despite the glitter rock songs (The Runaways screaming "Cherry Bomb!") and the presence of a Brady Buncher playing a prostitute. Rather, the film has good location work, interesting characters and editing. It would be easy to tag the film as TV-styled exploitation, yet it has its heart in the right place. In its day, this was a bigger ratings winner than Linda Blair's "Sarah T.: Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic" which started fresh a timeworn cycle: the teens-in-trouble genre.