# Street Smart (1987)

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**Runtime**: 97 min
**Genres**: Thriller, Crime, Drama
**Directed by**: Jerry Schatzberg
**Written by**: David Freeman
**Starring**: Christopher Reeve, Kathy Baker, Mimi Rogers, Jay Patterson, Andre Gregory, Morgan Freeman

> *Never let the truth ruin a good story.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Manhattan night. Distant sirens. A typewriter clacking. Journalist makes up a pimp for a story. The fiction too closely resembles an actual, dangerous man facing trial. Soon the writer is caught between the law and the streets. Schatzberg’s late-period crime films have a bitter aftertaste.

**Mood tags**: paranoid, raw

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