Street Smart - DVD

A New York magazine reporter on the verge of losing his job, Jonathan Fisher (Christopher Reeve, Superman) fabricates a story about prostitution that reignites his career and brings unwanted attention to a powerful pimp, Fast Black (Morgan Freeman, Million Dollar Baby). The police, believing the story is true, feel they are closer to putting the notorious pimp behind bars. As pressure mounts for Fisher to reveal the identity of the lead in his story, he's unaware that Fast Black has plans of his own for the writer who's jeopardized his business in the gritty, urban drama Street Smart. Street Smart, directed by Jerry Schatzberg (Scarecrow, The Panic In Needle Park), from a screenplay by David Freeman, co-stars Kathy Baker (Clean and Sober, The Glass House), Mimi Rogers (The Rapture, Someone To Watch Over Me), Andre Gregory (My Dinner With Andre, The Last Temptation of Christ), Rick Aviles (Carlito's Way, Ghost) and Jay Patterson (A Million Ways To Die In The West, City of Angels).

Photographers Pat Marvin and Larry Burke are desperate to save the newspaper they work for. In an attempt to drum up business, they try to get a snapshot of socialite Cynthia Van Loan, who has never been photographed. Instead they catch her fiance, Carl Pauling, with another woman. Anxious to get the picture published, the pair rush back to the office only to find their editor murdered. Pauling will go to any length to prevent his infid

Dan Lawton returns home from the Korean War and visits Frank Garrick, the surviving brother of a soldier in his unit who had been killed in combat. With a large cash stake, Frank lures Dan into a bizarre game, in which the two men hunt for each other in the city, their rifles armed with "camera" bullets. Dan has no idea that Frank blames him for his brother's death, has loaded live ammo into his weapon, and intends to murder the unsuspe