There Are No Children Here

There Are No Children Here

120 mins | Drama, TV Movie | Nov. 28, 1993

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.

There Are No Children Here

120 mins | Drama, TV Movie | Nov. 28, 1993

There Are No Children Here
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.
IMDb rating 6.7
Producers LOMO Productions
Original title There Are No Children Here
Directors Anita W. Addison
Writers Alex Kotlowitz, Bobby Smith Jr.

Cast

Oprah Winfrey

as LaJoe Rivers

Maya Angelou

as Lelia Mae

Keith David

as John Paul Rivers

Mark Lane

as Lafayette Rivers

Norman D. Golden II

as Pharoah Rivers

Vonte Sweet

as Craig

Crystal Laws Green

as Rochelle