Downtown: A Street Tale(2004)
A group of street kids find that the only way to make it through the day is to hold onto their dreams while their reality is eating out of dumpsters, turning tricks and squatting in abandoned buildings.
Movie: Downtown: A Street Tale
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Angelo
Aimee Levesque
H2O
Gus
Lenny
Hunter
Maria
Billy
Cheri
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A group of street kids find that the only way to make it through the day is to hold onto their dreams while their reality is eating out of dumpsters, turning tricks and squatting in abandoned buildings.
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2004-11-07
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