| Streets | |
| Director: | Katt Shea |
| Producer: | Andy Ruben executive Roger Corman |
| Starring: | Christina Applegate David Mendenhall Eb Lottimer |
| Music: | Aaron Davis |
| Cinematography: | Phedon Papamichael |
| Editing: | Gina Mittelman |
| Distributor: | Concorde Pictures |
| Studio: | Concorde Pictures |
| Runtime: | 85 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Gross: | $1,510,053 (US) |
Streets is a 1990 American drama film directed by Katt Shea and starring Christina Applegate and David Mendenhall.[1]
Dawn, a drug-addicted teen prostitute living on the streets of Los Angeles, and Sy, a teenage boy with dreams of becoming a rock star, become friends after Sy rescues Dawn from a violent john. Dawn takes Sy under her wing and gives him a guided tour of the seedy underworld of Hollywood.[2]
Katt Shea later recalled:
That was me just exploring the underside…I tend to really like to explore people I don’t know and so I started doing research on the streets and talking to people who lived on the streets. I did a lot of research and they thought I was a homeless person and I hung out with the kids and stuff and then wrote from that research. I knew a girl who was a heroin addict that we based "Dawn" on her. She lived on the street or sometimes she lived with a very rich boyfriend, which was very very strange.[3]Streets led to Shea being offered to direct the film Poison Ivy.[4]
Variety wrote, "Despite its B-film framework involving a maniacal killer stalking street kids, Streets transcends its genre with a gritty and affecting portrait of a teenage throwaway."[5]
Streets was released on VHS in mid 1990 through MGM/UA Home Entertainment.[6] A double feature DVD edition was released in 2011 as part of the Roger Corman's Cult Classics collection, through Shout! Factory.[7]