Streets (film)

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.^[3]

• 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

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.^[4]

Streets led to Shea being offered to direct the film Poison Ivy.^[5]

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."^[6]

Streets was released on VHS in mid 1990s through MGM/UA Home Entertainment.^[7] A double feature DVD edition was released in 2011 as part of the Roger Corman's Cult Classics collection, through Shout! Factory.^[8]