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Streets [VHS]

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Christina is no Kelly Bundy in this flick. She has wits and street smarts just to survive from day to day. She is young, beautiful and alone on the streets so she sells her body to make the money but she has intellegence to boot. She befriends a young man, new to the city and naive to what the world is like outside of his secure world with parents and money. He witnesses the way of life homeless people live who have been scruntinized by it's own society. Drugs, prostitution, starvation, all under his feet in the sewer drains, hidden from the world on top. Christina shows compassion through her hardened shield that she had to build to protect herself from the "real people" especially the law. This movie shows how well a character actor can change from a ditzy blonde in a sitcom to a serious actress. I applaude Christina with a standing ovation.

An unjustly overlooked movie about a teenage prostitute (Christina Applegate) who rescues a runaway boy from being shot. Then she shows him life on the streets filled with desparation and despair where you must do anything you can to survive. Applegate plays Dawn with vulnerability and sympathy but also with bitterness and a hardened attitude needed to protect herself. I hope this movie makes it to DVD with a commentary by Christina Applegate.

I enjoyed this movie alot it was very well written and i think she made that character relatable and tangible. she was excellent very convincing and it showed her versatility. it was definately the role she needed from "kelly bundy". Even though that was an excellent role too. I really loved the xrated scenes. beautiful!!

Although Roger didn't direct this film he produced it--and its 100% pure Corman. It moves along swiftly, has action, violence, partial nudity and ambigous moral themes (renegade cop, kind-hearted hooker etc).

Corman's brilliance is in taking what's really a drive-in movie and incorporating themes that make it sound like an "important" film every teenager should see.

None of this is to say its bad; when a young Christina Applegate says "I know how to have sex but I don't know how to make love!" I mean, wow, can life get any better?

This is the first time that I've ordered from a vendor on Amazon that did not meet my explectations. The tape was jumpy and I could not adjust the tracking enough to watch