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Where the Day Takes You (1992) -- A group of teen-age runaways try to survive in the streets of Los Angeles. Drugs, prostitution, violence and bureaucratic indifference all pose threats to the kids...

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Michael Hitchcock (writer)
Marc Rocco (writer)
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11 September 1992 (USA) more
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No parents. No rules.
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A group of teen-age runaways try to survive in the streets of Los Angeles. Drugs, prostitution, violence... more | add synopsis
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unsettling study of street kids more (31 total)

Cast

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Laura San Giacomo ... The Interviewer

Dermot Mulroney ... King

Robert Knepper ... Rock Singer

Sean Astin ... Greg

Balthazar Getty ... Little J

Will Smith ... Manny

James LeGros ... Crasher
Ricki Lake ... Brenda

Lara Flynn Boyle ... Heather

Peter Dobson ... Tommy Ray

Kyle MacLachlan ... Ted
Nancy McKeon ... Vikki

Adam Baldwin ... Officer Black

Rachel Ticotin ... Officer Landers

Alyssa Milano ... Kimmy
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105 min
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Heather: Brenda said that you killed your girlfriend.
King: Yeah, well Brenda says a lot of things. And I believe about... none of them.
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References Goodfellas (1990) more
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14 out of 16 people found the following review useful.
unsettling study of street kids, 10 July 2001
Author: thomandybish from Weaverville, NC

This overlooked film about teens surviving on the streets of Los Angeles came and went pretty quickly when initially released. Pity, because it's a film that deserves a wider audience. Within the device of a journalist doing interviews as research for an article on runaways, we're introduced to a band of teens who have formed a defacto family and the various situations they encounter on the street. King(Durmont Mulroney)is the leader and protector of an assortment of kids that include druggie Greg(Sean Astin), Little J(Balthasar Getty), smart-mouthed Brenda(Ricki Lake), and newcomer Heather(Lara Flynn Boyle), whom King takes a shine to. The film follows then through their days of riding boxcars, sleeping under overpasses, and hanging out in public places while avoiding cops, drug dealers, and pimps. While the film downplays some aspects of the streets( the violence and emotional devastation of child prostitution is acknowledged but not conveyed directly), others are show with uncomfortable intensity. For some of these kids, it's a one-way trip down. Sean Austin's fate as the speed-freak Greg is disturbing; the final shot of his character in the film haunted me for days.

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