Streets is a 1990 American thriller/drama film directed by Katt Shea and starring Christina Applegate and David Mendenhall.New York Times
Plot 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.New York Times
Cast Christina Applegate as Dawn David Mendenhall as Sy Eb Lottimer as Lumley Jane Chung as Old Bag Woman Starr Andreeff as Policewoman on Horse Alexander Folk as Bagley Kay Lenz as Sargent J Bartell as Officer #1 (as J. Bartell) Paul Ben-Victor as Officer #2 Tom Ruben as Officer #3 David Lawrence as Plumber Patrick Richwood as Bob Aron Eisenberg as Roach
Production 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."Director Katt Shea talks about her 1980's Roger Corman produced films" TV Store Online 3 Feb 2015 accessed 21 April 2015 Streets led to Shea being offered to direct the film Poison Ivy.
Reception 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."
Home media Streets was released on VHS in mid 1990s through MGM/UA Home Entertainment. A double feature DVD edition was released in 2011 as part of the Roger Corman's Cult Classics collection, through Shout! Factory.
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