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.
Unfortunately the movie There Are No Children Here is not yet available on HBO Max.
Writing | Alex Kotlowitz | Book |
Writing | Bobby Smith Jr. | Teleplay |
Lighting | James A. Miller | Gaffer |
Crew | Linda Perlin | Stunts |
Directing | Anita W. Addison | Director |