October 29th, 2009
Streetwise
I’m very excited. I just found my favorite movie of all time, Streetwise, on Youtube.
I can’t believe I didn’t think to look it up before! I haven’t seen the movie in several years, since I gave my VHS collection away (Streetwise is unavailable on DVD).
Streetwise is a 1984 documentary about homeless youth in Seattle. It’s simply one of the best non-fiction films ever made. Aside from maybe Chickenhawk. Which, now that I think about it - just may be up on ol’ Youtube, too.
Sometimes it’s a great modern world we live in.
I’ve actually got a copy of it floating around here, among the endless piles of crap here in my computer room.
It’s a VHSRip, but it’s on disc - and yes, you’re right, if anyone ever wanted to see kids who were pretty much just left to die hanging out there in Reagan’s Republican America, this was the end-all be-all doc to straighten any kid out - there’s disease, addiction, and a unusual kind of love for each other, even when they’re sharing needles, cause they’re all they’ve got in this shit fucked-up bile pit called earth.
Maybe you’d like a copy, wink wink?