Main Cast: Christopher Reeve, Morgan Freeman, Kathy Baker, Mimi Rogers, Jay Patterson
Release Year: 1987
Country: US
Run Time: 97 minutes
MPAA Rating: R
Plot
Jonathan Fisher (Christopher Reeve) is a newspaper reporter who becomes a celebrity when he writes a fictitious exposé on prostitution. The story of the high-living pimp is too close a resemblance to real-life flesh pedlar Fast Black (Morgan Freeman), and Jonathan is jailed when he refuses to turn his papers over to the local district attorney. In jail for suspicion of murder, Black tries to silence the reporter who created the sensational fabrication. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
Review
The annoying, artificial theatricality of star Christopher Reeve, his stage roots clearly showing through a cinematic performance, is sufficiently counterbalanced by a tight script and two powerhouse acting turns from Morgan Freeman and Kathy Baker. Based on a script from David Freeman, who knowingly mines his days as a New York magazine writer, this is a sharply observed treatise on the dark sides of journalism, the law, and street life. In fact, all three endeavors are clearly and cleverly demonstrated to be not too far removed from each other and their practitioners' cynicism and avarice. It's only in the film's routine, predictable, and far too pat finale, as well as a few hard-to-swallow scenes involving the character played by Reeve, that the film strains the veracity it works so hard to duplicate elsewhere. If nothing else, Street Smart (1987) has proven to be the breakout performance of Freeman, and that alone makes the film a wholly worthwhile affair. ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
Andre Gregory - Ted Avery; Anna Maria Horsford - Harriet; Frederick Rolf - Joel Davis; Erik King - Reggie; Michael J. Reynolds - Art Sheffield; Shari Hilton - Darlene; Donna Bailey - Yvonne; Lynne Adams; Rick Aviles - Solo; Danny Brainin - T.V. Cameraman; Les Carlson - Marty; Dorian Joe Clark - Transvestite; Carol Ann Francis - Susan; Ann Pearl Gary - Waitress; Francesco Golisano; Eddie Earl Hatch - Flashy Man; Max Montor; Robert Morelli - Undercover Cop; Richard Mullally - Suburban John; Daniel Nalbach - Singer; Eve Napier - Trish; Rick van Nutter - Judge; Grace Garland - Black Prostitute; Margarita Stocker - Intellectual Woman; Joe Barrientos - Hispanic Prostitute; Walter Allen Bennet, Jr. - Ball Player; Ruth Dahan - Mrs. Silverbeard; Ernest Deveaux - Kid; David Glen - Jay; Francisco Gonzales - Pablo; Terry Haig - Marshall; Emmanuelle LaSalle - Waitress; Donald Lamoureux - Prison Reporter; Shawn Laurence - Bartender; Wally Martin - Lowlife; Vera Miller - Party Guest; Ulla Moreland - Ted's Wife; Kelly Ricard - Woman Magistrate; Claudette Roach; Nadia Rona - Party Guest; Bill Torre - Hotel Clerk; Steve Michaels - Taxi Inspector; Ed Van Nuys - Judge
Credit
Serge Jacques - Art Director, Evzen Kolar - Associate Producer, Joy Todd - Casting, Jo Ynocencio - Costume Designer, Herbert W. Gains - First Assistant Director, Jacques Methe - First Assistant Director, Jerry Schatzberg - Director, Priscilla Nedd - Editor, Miles Davis - Composer (Music Score), Robert Irving III - Composer (Music Score), Dan Leigh - Production Designer, Adam Holender - Cinematographer, Yoram Globus - Producer, Menahem Golan - Producer, Evzen Kolar - Producer, Raymond Larose - Set Designer, Katherine Mathewson - Set Designer, Bill Stabile - Set Designer, Patrick Rousseau - Sound/Sound Designer, Andrew Birkin - Screenwriter, Dave Freeman - Screenwriter
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