Movie
1987
Street Smart is a 1987 American crime thriller film directed by Jerry Schatzberg and starring Christopher Reeve, Morgan Freeman, Kathy Baker, and Mimi Rogers. Reeve portrays an ambitious reporter who fabricates an interview with a pimp. When a real pimp who closely matches the fictional description (Freeman) is indicted for murder, both he and the prosecutor try to exploit the reporter for their own ends.
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A film can be made specifically for one actor only to ultimately benefit the other actor. This is what happened with *Street Smart*, 1987 crime drama directed by Jerry Schatzberg. The script for the film was written by David Freeman, loosely based on the stunt he had pulled while working as reporter for New York Magazine in 1969. His fictional alter ego, played by Christopher Reeve, is Jonathan Fisher, ambitious rep…More
