There Are No Children Here (1993)

There Are No Children Here (1993)

1993-11-28 United States of America 120 Min. PG-13
5.5 2 votes

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 is LaJoe Rivers
LaJoe Rivers
Maya Angelou is Lelia Mae
Lelia Mae
Keith David is John Paul Rivers
John Paul Rivers
Mark Lane is Lafayette Rivers
Lafayette Rivers
Norman D. Golden II is Pharoah Rivers
Pharoah Rivers