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Streetwise | New York City
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Best Supporting Actress | 1988 | Kathy
Best Supporting Male | 1988 | Morgan
Best Supporting Actor | 1987 | Morgan
Best Supporting Actor | 1987 | Morgan
Best Actor in a Supporting Role | 1988 | Morgan
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture | 1988 | Morgan
Best Supporting Female | 1988 | Kathy
The Cannon Group, Inc. agreed to finance this film as a pet project of Christopher Reeve, on the condition that he appear in at least one more Superman film, to which they had recently acquired the rights. The result was this, and Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987).
Christopher Reeve had the script in his possession for a long time, before he agreed to make it. Reeve had read a few pages, and felt it wasn't for him, before dumping the script on a pile of other screenplays in his bedroom. A few weeks later, he picked it up and decided to try again, and instantly liked the script. He made the material his next project.
The Cannon Group, Inc. effectively dumped the film after its completion, and gave it a small release, limited to less than three hundred screens.
One of the locations used was the old Seville Theater, in a rundown section of St. Catherine Street, near the old Montreal Forum. By that time, the theater had been closed for quite a while, and they redressed it as an adult movie theater on New York City's 42nd Street, leaving many to believe that the Seville Theater was being turned in a porno palace. After filming was done, everything was taken down, and the theater still remains closed to this day (December 2006), but is basically a shell, as the owners have let it fall into disrepair. However, the city has deemed the front of the building "historically important architecture", and will not allow the building to be torn down, unless they incorporate the front of the building into a new project.
This is the role that defined Morgan Freeman's career in garnering an Oscar nomination and one of the rare Cannon Films which would receive this rare achievement along with Jon Voight and Eric Roberts in "Runaway Train".
"[repeated lines] Jonathan Fisher: This is Jonathan Fisher, Channel 3, Street Smart!"
"Jonathan Fisher: Are you Fast Black? Fast Black: To some. My momma always called me Leo. Leo Smalls Jr."
