There Are No Children Here (1993)

7.0/10 120 min Drama TV Movie

Overview

The devastating story of brothers Lafayette and Pharoah Rivers, children of the Chicago ghetto, is powerfully told here by a Wall Street Journal reporter who first met the boys in 1985 when they were 10 and 7, respectively. Their family includes a mother, a frequently absent father, an older brother, and younger triplets. We witness the horrors of growing up in an ill-maintained housing project tyrannized by drug gangs and where murders and shootings frequently occur.

Cast

Oprah Winfrey

LaJoe Rivers

Maya Angelou

Lelia Mae

Keith David

John Paul Rivers

Norman D. Golden II

Pharoah Rivers

Vonte Sweet

Craig

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