Movie

There Are No Children Here

★ 7/10 · 3 votes 1993 2h 0m Released

DramaTV Movie

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 M Mark Lane Lafayette Rivers Norman D. Golden II Pharoah Rivers Vonte Sweet Craig